Drinking on a plane always seems like a great idea, but despite only having one or two I invariably feel worse after flights where I’ve drank than ones where I haven’t. Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be one of those veteran, pickled business travelers that can pound the drinks.
My rule of thumb after flying is that I owe myself 500cc of water for each hour of flight time, and that's after drinking carry on water and the complementary (soft) drinks: flying itself is severely dehydrating, and hauling luggage around may be light exercise but I'll usually end up sweating at some point in it.
Having two drinks on the flight just means another 500cc of water, but yeah, skip rehydration after flying and you're going to have a bad time. Add booze, it will be a worse time.
I love flying first class. The seats are just so much more comfortable. I can’t justify the extra $300-500+ per ticket for what is at most 5-6 hours though.
I’ve only done it once but we sat on the runway for over an hour and I didn’t care at all.
The other time I was on the runway for awhile I had to take a spirit or southwest flight and that was awful.
I’m always so uncomfortable and I’m not even a big person, 5’11” and 200lbs.
The only thing that has ever made a flight decent besides first class was taking etizolam and being knocked out the whole way through the flight.
Drinking on a flight makes me feel like crap. It only makes my miserable experience worse. If I drank a lot on or before a flight, I’d be so grumpy I’d probably get kicked off too. But this is obviously not everybody’s experience, as I hear people say a lot that it’s the only way they can bear a flight.
