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During the Flight

You're on your way to your destination, sitting comfortably and relaxed, while having a drink and smoking a cigar after a delightful meal, or aren't you? Probably not. You must be wondering about health aspects during the flight, asking yourself whether you will be able to cope with jetlag after your arrival and how to ensure a safe trip.

Economy Class Syndrome
During flight, blood coagulability rises steadily and blood flow slows down, especially in the lower legs. Blood clots form, usually painlessly, but some cause pain and swelling. If a clot travels to the lung it can cause pain, fainting and death. A clot in the leg is called deep vein thrombosis. A clot in the lung is pulmonary embolism. Clots also form in the arterial system and in the heart, leading to heart failure and stroke.

Changes in air pressure
Flying generally raises no health considerations for the millions of routine travelers, however, there are many things you can do to ensure that your flight is as comfortable as possible.

Turbulence
Turbulence is air movement that normally cannot be seen and often occurs unexpectedly. It can be created by e.g. atmospheric pressures, jet streams, mountain waves, cold or warm fronts, or thunderstorms. Turbulence can occur when the sky appears to be clear. Yearly hundreds of passengers are injured by turbulence while not wearing their seat belts.

Avoiding jetlag
Jetlag is a by-product of air travel when one feels tired, fuzzy and generally fatigued, sometimes accompanied by dull headaches, and is actually caused by disruption of your "body clock", designed for a regular rhythm of daylight and darkness, that is now thrown out of "sync" when it experiences daylight and darkness at the "wrong" times in a new time zone. The symptoms of Jetlag often persist for days, if not weeks, while the internal body clock slowly adjusts to the new time zone.

How to "survive" long-haul flights
A long flight, specifically in an economy seat, is one of the prospects that air travelers tend to dread. Although flying generally raises no health considerations, there are many things you can do to ensure that your flight is as comfortable as possible. What about the effects of air pressure and air dryness on your well being, your skin and looks?

An approved child restraint system
Proper use of an approved child restraint system (CRS) on an aircraft enhances child safety in the event of turbulence or an accident. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) strongly recommends that all children who fly, regardless of their age, use the appropriate restraint based on their size and weight.

Your safe trip
You need to be aware of what you can do to insure a safe journey, taking into account that anything can happen before, during and after the flight. In this section we made an attempt to provide you guidelines with a focus on safety.

Smoking
Just keep in mind that smoking aboard the aircraft is prohibited in accordance with most Federal Laws, on domestic, international, as well as intercontinental flights. Not all countries, however, and thus airlines banned smoking, such as Middle East, African, South American and Asian countries.

Stopovers
A stopover shall occur when a passenger arriving at an immediate or junction point on his/her itinerary fails to depart from such intermediate or junction point on the published connecting flight to the passenger's next intermediate or junction point or destination. Another reason for a stopover would be that the next published connecting flight was scheduled only to depart the next morning. In the first instance the cause could be a delayed arrival, a delayed departure, or even a cancelled flight. In such a case the airline could either arrange for an overnight accommodation at its own expense, or against a special rate. However, if the stopover was a “planned’ one, the cost associated with an overnight stay would be for the passengers own expense.

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