Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
I have a tough one coming up, due to the somewhat-novel (for flights of the general route) departure time. Flight leaves a little after noon west coast N. America, and arrives in Europe early the next day, so early it won't even be midnight the time zone where we left (and pretty much spent almost all of past 4 years). Been affected by jet lag the past decade that I've been flying to the point I love ship travel where there's many time zone changes.
Any suggestions for this flight time parameter? In the past for flights on similar routes, I've gone to sleep after the first meal (flights in the direction generally leave mid afternoon to mid evening which is more sensible) and I do better with late flights. Have a 6 hr layover before the short-ish connection to the final destination.
This seems similar to our flights from London to Tokyo.
The trick is to make your afternoon flight into a late flight. See if there is a way you can succumb to a nap the day before and stay up all night.
Travelling with an infant I found the jet lag issues for LON-TYO trips were becoming an insurmountable problem. We then made staying up the night before into a routine and, bingo, never been an issue since. Now I find adjusting to the TYO-LON change a little harder than the LON-TYO despite it all being much easier in the homeward direction without the self-imposed pre-flight exhaustion toll.
As with so much else related to travel, less of an eventual cost if you can pre-pay.