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4 tips to survive a red eye flight in economy

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Updated 8/23/2017 – With my son and I on an upcoming red eye flight to Sweden, I thought I would revisit the topic of how to sleep on a red eye flight in economy

Ah the dreaded red eye flight. Even worse, the dreaded red eye flight in economy! I mean anyone can handle a red eye flight when you’re relaxing in your lie-flat seats, but when you’re stuck in the back of the bus (so to speak), it gets a little trickier!

I took a red eye flight last week on my way from ng-conf in Salt Lake City to the Family Travel for Real Life conference in Charlotte.  The US Airways flight left SLC at 12:30 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Charlotte at 6:15 a.m.  With the 2 hour time difference, it was a scheduled flight time of 3 hours, 45 minutes :-(.

I did a bit of…

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