Originally Posted by
mcbg1
I will be flying to Hong Kong in two weeks and since this will be my first long daytime flight, I'm not sure how I should prepare for it. My flight leaves at around 3pm and arrives the next day in Hong Kong at around 7pm. I already have enough trouble sleeping on overnight flights, I can't imagine how I will survive a 15 hour long daytime flight. Should I stay up the night before so that I can possibly sleep on the flight or would that be a bad idea since I will arrive in Hong Kong in the evening? Any tips?
I will be flying in economy which makes things even more difficult. It should be an interesting experience to say the least!
Since the flight leaves at 3pm ET (3am HK time), I normally try to nap a bit after the first meal service to get my body clock somewhat oriented to HK time. Then I stay up the rest of the way, and am sufficiently tired to fall asleep at 10-11pm the evening I arrive. In order to be able to fall asleep on the flight I normally sleep a little less the night before.
I assume you are taking CX from JFK or CO from EWR, both of which have flights at that time. Both airlines have AVOD (I'm partial to CX here in saying CX is better, but IIRC CO's wasn't too bad either), so that should make the passing of time much easier.