Qantas wants you to fly high and land beautifully
QANTAS is looking at how it can help people look and feel better when they arrive at their destination.
The airline says it will be working with leading medical experts to see how it can enhance wellness and comfort during long-haul flights, including possible ways to reduce jet lag.
Qantas has partnered with the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre to find out what parts of the flying experience – from the lighting and temperature of the cabin, to what food is served and when – could be tweaked to make passengers more comfortable, better rested and less jet-lagged.
And it couldn’t come at a
better time, with the 17-hour marathon Perth to London service taking off in March.
Qantas chief Alan Joyce said: “What this is about is us looking at every stage of the travel experience and using scientific information to improve it, whether it’s pre-flight and giving our passengers advice on what they should do before they travel, in transit, after they leave the aircraft and arrive at their destination.
The centre had influenced what meals to serve and when to serve them, “what the lighting on the aircraft should be, what the temperate of the aircraft should be and what our lounge experience on the ground should be”, he said.
Two of Qantas’s most high-profile frequent flyers – model and businesswoman Jesinta Franklin and Australian rugby sevens captain Ed Jenkins – will be guinea pigs in a trial of wearable technology and other measures to track the physical and mental state of passengers during a flight.