You can always rely on the FT community for advice, so here goes with a quick question.

I love air travel, but it usually means lugging bags around and often hot and crowded terminals (on the way to sometimes hot and crowded lounges). Some people never seem to feel the heat, but put together the combination of busy travel (usually in a suit), with lots of walking, carrying bags and lack of decent a/c, and I often get to the lounge / plane feeling baking hot (where others around me seems totally cool and calm).

Its not just airports which do this to me - my body just seems really bad at temperature regulation - but the combination of factors mentioned above culminate in airports being a 'hot zone' for me.

Do any other FT'ers find this? And what do you do to combat it?

I do the usual - get to the lounge and drink a large glass of ice-filled water to try and cool down my inner core. Plus I've started carryiny one of those personal fans in my pocket for long security lines. And my Doctor suggested popping a couple of paracetamols in advance, as they help to lower body temperature.

But does anyone have any other ideas for keeping cool and stopping getting hot under the collar in such situations? And is it just me, or does the thought of people seeing you might be getting a little hot just make things a million times worse (and you suddenly feel even hotter)!

Answers on a postcard, or even better, in a reply below. ^

Thanks in advance

747_not_777