從倫敦到悉尼19個小時的“試飛”告訴你如何忍受長途旅行

從倫敦到悉尼19個小時的“試飛”告訴你如何忍受長途旅行

Passengers on board Qantas flight 7879 took off from London early Thursday morning and arrived in Sydney a bit after noon on Friday — 19 hours and 19 minutes in the air.

澳洲航空公司的7879航班于周四凌晨從倫敦起飛，周五中午稍晚一點抵達悉尼，飛行時間為19小時19分鐘。

So how do you keep people on board from going crazy while they're cooped up that long?

那么，當他們被關(guān)在機倉里那么長時間，你怎么才能不讓他們發(fā)瘋？

The Australian airline's approach on the 11,000 mile flight was to design the meals and lighting carefully, get passengers out of their seats, and focus on the remarkable: two sunrises in one day.

在11，000英里的飛行中，這家澳大利亞航空公司的做法是仔細設(shè)計餐飲和照明，讓乘客離開座位，并關(guān)注一件神奇的事：一天兩次日出。

In addition to Sydney, Qantas is exploring a number of new nonstop flight routes that would be longer than any currently operating, including from New York and London to Melbourne and Brisbane. And so, the 52 people on board – largely employees of the airline, along with some journalists – were guinea pigs.

除了悉尼以外，澳航還在探索一些新的直飛航線，這些航線將比目前運營的任何航線都要長，包括從紐約、倫敦到墨爾本和布里斯班的航線。所以，飛機上的52名乘客——大部分是航空公司的員工，還有一些記者——都是實驗對象。

Last month, Qantas landed the first nonstop commercial airline flight from New York to Sydney. That flight took 19 hours, 16 minutes. The carrier says that flight saved passengers three hours over the normal routing, which includes a stop.

上個月，澳洲航空公司第一架從紐約飛往悉尼的直達商業(yè)航班著陸。那次飛行花了19小時16分鐘。該航空公司表示，該航班比正常航線為乘客節(jié)省了3個小時的時間，其中包括中途停留。

Jet-lag researchers at the University of Sydney put into practice a number of strategieson the flight related to light, food, and exercise.

悉尼大學(xué)的時差研究人員在飛行中采取了一系列與光線、食物和運動有關(guān)的時差調(diào)整策略。

To help the body to adjust to the time difference, light in the cabin was correlated to Sydney time as soon as the flight took off. So though the plane took off at 6 a.m. in London, dinner was served and the lights were soon turned down.

為了幫助身體適應(yīng)時差，飛機一旦起飛，機艙內(nèi)的燈光就與悉尼時間相關(guān)。因此，盡管飛機在倫敦早上6點起飛，但晚餐已經(jīng)準備好，燈光很快就被調(diào)暗了。

Meals were designed to produce specific effects. Dinner was a carb-heavy steak sandwich, easy on the spice, intended to lull passengers to sleep. Drinks were offered, too — on the previous nonstop test flight between New York and Sydney, 38% of passengers said they drank alcohol to hasten sleep (though alcohol can be especially dehydrating on such extended flights).

食物被設(shè)計成產(chǎn)生特定的效果。晚餐是碳水化合物含量高的牛排三明治，口味清淡，意在使乘客容易入睡。機上還提供飲料——在前一趟從紐約飛往悉尼的直飛測試航班上，38%的乘客表示他們喝酒是為了促進睡眠(盡管在這種長途飛行中，酒精會讓人特別脫水)。

To test the flight's impact, test passengers wore activity monitors, kept logs of how they felt, and played a "whack-a-mole" game on an iPad to test their reaction time and attentiveness.

為了測試飛行的影響，測試乘客佩戴行為監(jiān)測儀，記錄他們的感受，在iPad上玩“打鼴鼠”游戲，以測試他們的反應(yīng)時間和注意力。

The London to Sydney route was flown commercially once before, along a different route in 1989, with just 23 passengers. The longest flight currently operating is Singapore Airlines' nonstop from Singapore to Newark, which takes 18.5 hours.

1989年，倫敦至悉尼的航線曾進行過一次商業(yè)飛行，當時是另一條航線，只有23名乘客。目前運營時間最長的航班是新加坡航空公司從新加坡直飛紐瓦克的航班，全程18.5小時。

The researchers' tactics seemed to help aboard the new Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

研究人員的策略似乎對這架新型波音787-9飛機有所幫助。

"I feel really well," test passenger Andy Chevis told Reuters during the descent. "Probably a lot better than I normally would at this point in the flight."

“我感覺很好，”受測試乘客安迪·切維斯在下降過程中告訴路透社。“可能比我平時在飛行中的表現(xiàn)要好得多。”

By hour 17, reported CNN's Richard Quest, there was "a palpable sense that people are keen to see the end of the flight. They want off as soon as possible."

據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)的理查德·奎斯特報道，飛到第17個小時的時候，“人們有一種強烈的感覺，渴望看到飛行的結(jié)束”。他們想盡快離開。”

The airline says it expects decide whether to go forward with the super-long-haul routes by the end of 2019, with a goal of launching the nonstop routes by 2022.

該航空公司表示，預(yù)計將在2019年底決定是否繼續(xù)發(fā)展超級長途航線，目標是到2022年開通直達航線。