The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks
Having just done a close to 20 hour flight (sort of - 6 hours CPT to ADD, just enough time to go to another plane, 14 hours ADD to IAD via a technical stop in Dublin), I&#x27;ve got to say just how absolutely miserable it is to fly for a long period of time on a full flight. Particularly if you&#x27;re taller than 6&#x27;2&quot; (~1.9m) and you have broader shoulders, you&#x27;re going to be massively uncomfortable.<p>Yeah, I want a cheap flight, but if there was a small perk where I could physically lie flat for ~15 minutes at some point during the flight, I would pay for that. I haven&#x27;t been able to really deload my spine for pushing 48 hours (aside from some psuedo-yoga stretching while standing) due to further connections and layovers and it sucks.<p>International flight is an amazing, painful miracle of science and technology. Maybe SpaceX&#x27;s BFR will make it better :-) But I highly doubt we&#x27;ll ever see a reasonably priced long-haul flight with a gym available to us peasants.