Posted on 04/15/2016 1:35:28 PM PDT by Gamecock
Longest for me so far is LHR to HKG, 12h.
Took an Ambien after dinner, missed (thankfully) 8.5hrs of the flight.
:-)
Yes, Yes, I remember I had the lasagna.
>> 135 million passengers who arrived in the Paris airport. 56 people had confirmed pulmonary embolism on arrival <<
I talked once to a foreign service officer who had served at the American Consulate in Beijing. He said it was routine for the Consulate to arrange shipping back home of the remains of elderly American tourists who had suffered fatal strokes and cardiac problems (especially due to DVT) on those ultra-long flights from the USA to China.
“How many people do you lose on a normal cruse? 30? 40?”
aka "Economy Class Syndrome"
It is critical to get up and move around regularly on long flights.
I took that same flight in June 2007 with my daughter then aged 3 months. I survived. But yes, my feet were puffy once we landed
As a teenager I flew 7 hrs. Miami to Caracas, ...on a DC-4. :)
Today, 3-4 hrs. tops.
I can’t imagine 8, 10+ hrs on a plane.
Flew to Denver a few yrs. ago on a smaller jet. The seats were like concrete.
Several on us stood in the aisle like on a city bus for the last 2 hours .
Awful.
I remember reading somewhere that at any given time the population in the air above the U.S. would rank in the top 20 largest U.S. cities.
Although they do have a history of mid-air explosions with jumbo jets.
I had a FRA to DFW flight that was almost that long one time. Started out up the North Sea between Scotland and Norway; over Greenland, then back down. Strong headwinds and a pilot that was trying to save money on fuel.
This guy just got unlucky. But international travel really does beat the body up. I don't know how business travelers make trans-Pacific runs on a routine basis. Once or twice a year is enough for me.
In the last few years I've done about a dozen or so 14-16 hour long flights...JFK-HKG,LA-SYD,Dubai-JFK.My cardiologist has strongly advised me to spend no more than an hour sitting without walking around for 15 minutes or more.I usually spend a lot of time standing in the rear galley...trying to get lucky(only kidding about "lucky").
Just between Frankfurt and Atlanta on Delta 14, I stood for most of the flight back near the restrooms where there was some common room.
Nowadays if I can’t drive there in two days, I’m not going. Life is too short and there’s always Youtube for armchair adventuring.
In a related Story, Maya Angelou loved flying on the Concorde.
Liberal Black Poets who are friends with the Clintons must make a boat load of Money.
RIP the poor guy on the Quantas Flight.
When it’s your time, it’s your time.
Hope he didn’t have to pay for the Headset.
I think they do.
Yep, I have to make an APAC run 2x per year.
Longest with stops was BLR-DOH-LHR-IAD, 19hrs flight time.
Qatar 777-Qatar 380-BA 380
A lengthy trans-oceanic flight is just a bad place to have a life-threatening medical crisis. Even if there were a doctor on board whose training would be helpful, there’s not a whole lot that can be done other than try to stabilize the person until landing.
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