Word of Caution for those who fly a lot

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Freeway
I've seen alot of stuff about this on the news in the last couple months....
I just got off an 14 hr flight from denmark to LA and I made sure to get up every hour and take a couple laps around the plane and do some standing stretches by my seat

Hey Freeway, yeah- usually I do similar things...but I was so weak from the virus I got I hardly wanted to get up to go to the toilet.

The route NorthWest takes in JFK-->Tokyo 'bout 15hrs depending on wind [1.5hr till plane switch] then Tokyo to Bangkok 5hrs and change.

In general, planes simply don't go fast enough. I'd like my next flight to Thailand to be in an F-22 Raptor on super cruise. 1,000 miles an hour, baby.

Guess I'll talk to the docs and post around to see best way for long flights. Maybe going over Europe with an over night stop over would be safest. More expensive though.

Can get tickets from NY to Bangkok for $675-$800 on the typical route. Think it was over double that to go the other way.

And business class is $2k and don't think that would help much- like you state it's really getting up and getting the blood circulating. In one of those links I posted above a soccer player wore stockings and added a stopover to make sure he was OK.