What actually happens to your body on a 24-hour flight

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It’s an exciting time for long-haul travel (Picture: Getty Images/Metro) It’s official. The Guinness World Record for the longest commercial flight by distance has been broken.…

It’s official. The Guinness World Record for the longest commercial flight by distance has been broken.

Let’s refresh our memory. In July, a flight departed Melbourne, Australia, and landed in Toulouse, France, just over 24 hours later.

It was part of the flight test campaign for the Airbus A350-1000ULR, developed for Qantas Airways under its ambitious Project Sunrise.

All in, the plane covered a whopping 12,503 nautical miles, flying over Sydney, the Pacific, and the International Date Line, before cruising over London and on to France.

While there were no paying passengers on board — a crew of pilots and engineers locked in for the ride — there soon will be.

Qantas, Australia’s flag carrier, is gearing up to launch Project Sunrise in 2027, designed to take passengers from London to Sydney in just 22 hours.

The route is expected to revolutionise long-haul travel, complete with game-changing features such as a ‘Wellbeing Zone’ and lighting scenes to reduce jet lag.

However, as mere mortals, our bodies aren’t designed to spend such long periods of time in the air, 40,000 feet above sea level.

So, to understand what actually happens to our bodies on a long-haul flight, Metro spoke with Dr Nikki Ramskill, private GP and founder of The Female Health Doctor.

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