Jet lag is disruption of the body’s internal timing after crossing time zones. For aircrew, it may interact with overnight duty, early starts and short recovery periods. It should not be dismissed as a minor inconvenience that a positive attitude or a bottle of water can always solve.
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Jet lag occurs when your internal body clock is out of step with the local schedule after crossing time zones. Travel fatigue, poor sleep and an uncomfortable flight can add to it, but they are not all the same problem.
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Updated October 2026. The longest airline journeys are best compared using a clearly defined measure. Great-circle distance, actual distance flown and scheduled flight duration are not identical. Winds and routing can also make one direction of a route take longer than the other.
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