{"id":9467,"date":"2024-04-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:28:09","slug":"quick-tip-choosing-long-haul-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/quick-tip-choosing-long-haul-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip: Choosing Long-Haul Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It took me a few long-haul trips before I figured out the optimal length of a flight, here&#8217;s the logic I&#8217;ve arrived at for choosing the length of long-haul flights when you have options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>US to Europe or the Middle East: My optimal flight length is 10 \u00bd hours, long enough to take-off, sleep for 8 hours, have breakfast, and then arrive<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Europe or the Middle East to the US: Typically you&#8217;re only napping when traveling this way, so my optimal flight length is the one that maximizes time on a wide-body and minimizes time on a narrow-body<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>US to Asia: Flights that leave in the late afternoon or early evening are best for resetting your schedule to Asia time<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asia to the US: Again, you&#8217;re probably only napping when traveling in this direction, so maximize time on a wide-body and minimize time on narrow-bodies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-1024x703.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9468\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-1024x703.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-1536x1054.png 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb-1320x906.png 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tomb.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Next quick-tip preview: How to behave when visiting foreign tombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a few long-haul trips before I figured out the optimal length of a flight, here&#8217;s the logic I&#8217;ve arrived at for choosing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}