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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 2:46 pm
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Originally Posted by rjque
...Taking the redeye from SFO-IAD (or JFK when on AA) and then the daylight LHR flight allows me to do whatever I want on the plane (including napping) knowing that I will arrive in LHR exhausted at an appropriate sleep time. My body is then fully adjusted when I wake up the next morning.
After suffering through several miserable redeyes where I always arrive in Europe feeling exhausted, I'm going to give this a try at the end of this week.

Originally Posted by gnaget
If you have no work to do then kick back after breakfast, drink some champagne and watch movies...... I have zero jetlag after this flight.

If you are having issues budgeting hotels then you can get them for ~$70 for a 4* on Priceline..... no worries.
My plan exactly!!
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