How to Travel in an Economy Class Seat More Comfortably From your Air Travel Guide A long flight in an economy seat is one of the prospects that air travelers tend to dread. Here are a few tips to try and make it more comfortable. Here's How: - Place one of the provided pillows between your lower back and the seat. Helps ease back soreness.
- Pack your own neck pillow, or scrunch one provided by the airline to support your neck.
- Do periodic stretches. Place your hands on the armrests and slowly twist your torso to loosen your upper body.
- When the seatbelt light is off, stretch your legs by walking down the aisle of the aircraft with a bit more bend in your knees.
- Limber up swollen feet by slowly turning your feet at the ankle in circular patterns. Should help maintain good blood flow.
- Moisturize hands and face with heavy/lasting creams or petroleum jelly. The air is very dry inflight and thin moisturizers wear or rub off.
- Keep the air vent above you open. Dampen a facecloth, place it over your face, and aim the air vent at the cloth. Helps with dryness.
- Bring lots of chewing gum for changes in air pressure. Ears don't always pop just during take-off and landing times, but during the flight as well. Helps with the nerves as well!
- Wear loose fitting, slip on shoes. Feet swell, and if you take shoes off at any point in a flight, a shoe that just fits can be painful to put back on.
- Wear loose fitting clothes. Inflight dining and drinking may leave you feeling bloated.
- If you are wearing pantyhose or tights make sure that you moisturize your legs well. The dryness inflight can make legs feel very itchy in tights or pantyhose if you don't.
- Try and drink as many non alcoholic beverages as possible. Perhaps bring an extra bottle of water with you.
- When traveling with a broken arm, or toe, etc., make sure that your doctor has provided you with adequate pain medication. The compression inflight can make a broken bone feel excruciatingly painful.
- Try not to keep your hair in a ponytail, or use hair clips in the back of your head. These will dig into your head after a few hours of the rigid seat backs.
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