An hours nap helps a lot of people.
Yup, particularly when you're expected to head straight into work after long haul + connection.
An hours nap helps a lot of people.
Yup, particularly when you're expected to head straight into work after long haul + connection.
Would be a lot better if legislation prohibited that. Unless the long-haul was business class (in which case you have kipped there) it is totally unreasonable to do that, and almost nobody will work effectively in such a case anyway.
My German colleagues do have a rule that they either have a day to recover from an economy long-haul flight, or they fly business if expected to work straight away. But that's the result of a works committee negotiation (a concept we lack here, we've managed to turn the middle classes against that kind of collectivism) rather than specific legislation.
I still don't understand why someone who didn't manage to sleep on the long haul would be able to do so on a 1hr connecting flight in a more cramped environment, reclining seats or not.
In that sort of situation you'd sleep on the connecting flight whatever the legroom and whether the seat reclined or not.I don't know about you, but very often I find that if I miss a complete night's sleep I doze off involuntarily the following day, however uncomfortable a position I'm in. This sort of confirms the old adage "the only way to get a decent night's sleep on a night train is to have been on one the night before".
In any case, sleasyJet offer better legroom in most seats (other than behind the exit row in A320s where they crammed an extra row in) than KLM do on longhaul
In that sort of situation you'd sleep on the connecting flight whatever the legroom and whether the seat reclined or not.
I still don't understand why someone who didn't manage to sleep on the long haul would be able to do so on a 1hr connecting flight in a more cramped environment, reclining seats or not.
I've not slept on a red eye then fallen asleep- standing up- on the Northern Line!
I do agree with you, though, in short-haul doesn't need recline. The question is how you define short-haul. It's 4 hours to the Canary Islands or the Greek islands from here, 5 to Turkey and nearly 6 to Egypt. But they're "short haul" flights. It's only another hour or so to Dubai and that's "long haul".
The difference with Dubai is hat a lot of people are interlining with a fairly short connection time onto another flight of similar length to somewhere further east. So there's some reason to offer better conditions than might be justified by the Europe-Dubai leg in isolation.I've not slept on a red eye then fallen asleep- standing up- on the Northern Line!
I do agree with you, though, in short-haul doesn't need recline. The question is how you define short-haul. It's 4 hours to the Canary Islands or the Greek islands from here, 5 to Turkey and nearly 6 to Egypt. But they're "short haul" flights. It's only another hour or so to Dubai and that's "long haul".