Originally Posted by
adamak
When we depart in the afternoon, I'll make sure he gets plenty of exercise in the morning and at the airport. He may get a quick nap on the way to airport. Then food, TV on board for couple of hours, and crash at 8pm regular time. And we may get lucky that he'll sleep all the way to destination.
This is our plan this summer as well. We depart late afternoon that connects to the evening departure of a long haul. When we did (solo parent taking a toddler) the late morning departure non-stop long haul, my kid stayed up almost entire flight, making my time in the flight so miserable (I mean, I anticipated that, but it was a bit of pain trying to eat my food and going to the restroom while at the same time entertaining toddler...)