Passengers are seen on board Qantas flight QF7879, flying direct from London to Sydney, November 14, 2019. Picture taken November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jill Gralow
（Reuters）Meal composition and schedules, well-timed exercise and lighting can all “help people adjust better and reduce jetlag”, University of Sydney physiologist Corinne Caillaud told me during the roughly 17,000-kilometre (10,500-mile) flight.
So after the eight-hour blackout and a breakfast spiked with chilli - to boost the metabolism - Caillaud led regular bouts of stretches and squats, performed in the aisles with varying degrees of enthusiasm by her guinea-pig passengers.
Besides raising alertness, the airborne work-out is also key to reducing the risk of deep-vein thrombosis on such a long flight.
The meals, sleep schedules and encouragement to exercise are likely to figure to some extent in the cabin service eventually offered to Qantas’ commercial customers on these routes.
To fly direct to Sydney with a full passenger load, Qantas will need a longer-range plane than the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner we flew in, which was more than three-quarters empty.
The airline is betting that customers will pay more to avoid stop-offs. The new aircraft it’s poised to order from Boeing or Airbus will have cabin features tailored to ultra-long haul, and unprecedented space in coach class.
The interiors will offer a “very designed product for long-haul travel”, as Qantas CEO Alan Joyce explained to me during the flight.
“Our intention is to have a bigger seat pitch in economy than we’ve ever done before, and have dedicated stretching areas in economy.”
So how did I sleep?
I didn’t, in fact - not a wink. But then, I was working.
And although I can’t be sure, the carefully scheduled meals and blackouts may have left me feeling slightly less destroyed than I otherwise might after soldiering through two sunrises, with a final flight time of 19 hours and 19 minutes.
More reassuringly, the test passengers did largely manage to sleep on cue, and fared much better.
“I feel really well,” Andy Chevis, a Sydney-based management consultant, exclaimed during the final approach. “Probably a lot better than I normally would at this point in the flight.”
Passengers are seen on board Qantas flight QF7879, flying direct from London to Sydney, November 14, 2019. Picture taken November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jill Gralow
（Reuters）Meal composition and schedules, well-timed exercise and lighting can all “help people adjust better and reduce jetlag”, University of Sydney physiologist Corinne Caillaud told me during the roughly 17,000-kilometre (10,500-mile) flight.
So after the eight-hour blackout and a breakfast spiked with chilli - to boost the metabolism - Caillaud led regular bouts of stretches and squats, performed in the aisles with varying degrees of enthusiasm by her guinea-pig passengers.
Besides raising alertness, the airborne work-out is also key to reducing the risk of deep-vein thrombosis on such a long flight.
The meals, sleep schedules and encouragement to exercise are likely to figure to some extent in the cabin service eventually offered to Qantas’ commercial customers on these routes.
To fly direct to Sydney with a full passenger load, Qantas will need a longer-range plane than the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner we flew in, which was more than three-quarters empty.
The airline is betting that customers will pay more to avoid stop-offs. The new aircraft it’s poised to order from Boeing or Airbus will have cabin features tailored to ultra-long haul, and unprecedented space in coach class.
The interiors will offer a “very designed product for long-haul travel”, as Qantas CEO Alan Joyce explained to me during the flight.
“Our intention is to have a bigger seat pitch in economy than we’ve ever done before, and have dedicated stretching areas in economy.”
So how did I sleep?
I didn’t, in fact - not a wink. But then, I was working.
And although I can’t be sure, the carefully scheduled meals and blackouts may have left me feeling slightly less destroyed than I otherwise might after soldiering through two sunrises, with a final flight time of 19 hours and 19 minutes.
More reassuringly, the test passengers did largely manage to sleep on cue, and fared much better.
“I feel really well,” Andy Chevis, a Sydney-based management consultant, exclaimed during the final approach. “Probably a lot better than I normally would at this point in the flight.”
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