Skift Take
Gen Z has made boasting about good sleep its most recent flex. And the travel sector has followed suit, using science to cater to vacationers of all ages looking to get some precious shut-eye.
By Sarah Kopit | April 28, 2024
Short red-eye flights are the worst. And they are some of the most frequently traveled routes for corporate road warriors. San Francisco to New York. New York to London. London to Dubai.
Airports are not relaxing.
It’s impossible to start winding down while sternly being directed to “TAKE YOUR LAPTOPS OUT OF YOUR BAGS!,” then walking, barefoot, on a sticky linoleum floor through a metal detector.
By the time you’ve trudged to the gate, loaded yourself onto the plane, and settled-in enough to possibly drift off, you will inevitably move through the five stages of grief.
First, you’ll check your watch in disbelief that there’s now only five hours until landing (denial). Next, annoyingly, you also know…