Air Sickness
 

Just wondering if any of you frequent flyers ever get air sickness when flying.

I have read trip reports where some people can be doing these long mileage runs (many segments on the same day for the sole purpose of flying) and wonder if they get "sick".

Depends on the quality of the food http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/rolleyes.gif

Only on flights with cold tri color pasta.

I'm generally OK on any segment under 10 hours as long as the cabin stays cool and the fresh/recirculated air mix isn't too lean. Several segments in a day is no problem; I find even half an hour on the ground somewhere is enough to recover.

Bad airline food is another matter entirely, but its effects tend not to manifest themselves until some time after the flight...

Headaches every so often. Going west bound only.

In all these years of flying, I never saw anyone use 'that' bag.
Also, the more often you fly, the more you don't pay attention. Sometimes the 5 hour flights really 'fly by'. No pun intended.

Dan

Air sickness? No. A scratchy throat and runny nose 36 hours after deplaning Qantas LAX-SYD? Yes. Australians call it the "Qantas tickle".

I have not felt airsick in years (even though I am prone to other motion sickness, such as seasickness). It seems that I fly so often I am used to it.

5 years ago, however, I had to fly in a big hurry from Iceland to Washington, D.C. All of the direct Keflavik - BWI flights were booked, so I flew Keflavik - London - JFK - BWI. The last segment was on a Dehavilland turboprop, in a winter storm. We took off behind a heavy jet, making for a rough takeoff, and then bucked and swayed all the way to BWI. A combination of extreme fatigue (I just finished working a stretch of 20+ 12 hour days) plus a bit of overindulging in Business Class on BA from London to JFK left me feeling quite ill. I didn't "lose it", but I was pale and perspiring heavily on the flight, and staggered off the plane once we landed.

Did ORD-CMI in a storm once. Almost lost it. I think we were in one of the smaller ATR's.

Did ORD-CMI in a storm once. Almost lost it. I think we were in one of the smaller ATR's.

Last year on the ORD-Zurich run on Christmas Day on AA...After arriving early in the Zurich area, we had to circle for 90 minutes because of 100 mph winds and storms in Zurich and Western Europe (over 100 were killed in the storms on the ground). The 767-300 was shaking and shaking. We were all told to place our seats in the upright position for the 90 minutes and then it happened...

A person a row behind me started to "Sell Buicks" in the air sickness bag.

Then another did a row in front of me...I was fine for about ten minutes and then the chain reaction started.

You can all figure out the rest.

The food on AA had nothing to do with this one, it was motion...a lot of motion!

I was waiting to board a Southwest flight from Dallas to Midland a couple of years ago, and immediately after they started boarding they abruptly stopped the process. ABout 10 minutes later they announced that the delay was due to "passenger sickness," but that they were now ready to finish boarding.

While they had put garbage bags over the three seats on the left of the aisle about 6 rows back, the reek was was still very sharp and identifiable. I felt very sorry for those with high boarding numbers who ended up in the adjacent rows. The flight attendants were much more subdued on that segment, I remember.

Not since my last flight on a DC-8 to Las Vegas. The "8" was somewhat famous for it's bad reaction to headwinds and would pitch up and down slightly. It was just enough motion to make me a little "ill".