Originally Posted by Autonomy

if you can, this works for me usually... no matter what local time you fly, you must stay awake until you go to bed at 10pm at least local time where ever you are. At this point you will usually be so tired, after 30 hours plus awake and sleep the whole night....

this worked recently dxb to lax... and many other places

Originally Posted by The Dean

OK I'm outta here............ er, now what time is it in................ er...........

Originally Posted by The Dean

I used to think jet lag was all in the mind, until I did a whole series of long-haul flights a while back.

Luckily that was holiday-related but this will be purely work.

Overnight tonight Bahrain-Dubai-Singapore, a couple of days there, then an 8-hour flight from Singapore to Sydney, two and a bit days there, and finally a FIFTEEN-hour night flight back from Sydney to Dubai, then Bahrain.

All in seven days.

I'm most concerned about falling asleep in an important meeting in Sydney sometime next Friday morning - or Thursday night Dean-GCC-time.

Any suggestions? (And don't bother suggesting 'avoid alcohol on the planes' - I will be drinking, at least moderately.)

Originally Posted by Fairydust

Good job youre not a pilot then

Originally Posted by The Dean

I don't know how they do it.............

Come to think of it - they don't do it. I remember a documentary about how they are never at their best, switching on the autopilot so they can take a nap, etc..........