Flight Comfort Tips

Most people recover from jet lag at roughly one day per time zone crossed, so a six-hour shift usually takes about six days to … Read more

How to adjust to a time zone after a long flight comes down to moving the cues your body clock uses to tell time: … Read more

To sleep on a red eye flight well, you do three things: shift your bedtime in the days before you leave, pick a seat … Read more

Most people who cannot sleep on airplanes are not simply tired. The cabin works against sleep from several directions at once: it is dry, … Read more

To survive the middle seat on a long flight, you need to do four things: pick a better seat if you still can, claim … Read more

To make an economy seat more comfortable, change three things in this order: pick a seat that suits your body, use the adjustments the … Read more

Who gets the armrest in the middle seat? The middle-seat passenger gets both of them. The window passenger keeps the fuselage wall, the aisle … Read more

The seat printed on your boarding pass belongs to you, so the first move is simple: stand at the row, show the seat number … Read more

A seat kicker is a passenger behind you who repeatedly kicks or bounces the back of your seat, usually a child or teenager, sometimes … Read more

Is it rude to recline your airplane seat? No, not on its own. A paid economy seat is built to recline, and using that … Read more