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How to get the best deal, lessen the stress and minimize the risks when you flyAir travel is now a regular part of our lives. We take on average three flights a year and over a lifetime, many of us will clock up more than a million miles in the air. But not only is it increasingly stressful, there is also growing evidence that air travel can pose serious health risks, including deep vein thrombosis, exposure to poor air quality, water and food, and tensions that can lead to air rage.Offering clear guidelines, and tips from air travel insiders, this comprehensive and completely up to date guide looks at how you can minimize the risks and make the most of your flight, including:- Checking in: how to get the best seat, to what to do if there's a problem- Avoiding deep vein thrombosis- In-flight health - beating sick aircraft syndrome-Flying with children-Surviving the unthinkable - what it's like to be in a plane crash-The latest in-depth flight health statistics and arline safety statisticsThis is an essential volume for anyone who ever passes through an airport.

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More and more people are spending several hours, at least once a year, in flight; here is a book full of excellent tips for making the experience, and the days which follow it, more bearable. A lot of information here has been common knowledge for some time: we all know that in order to escape the worst of jet-lag we should drink heavily but avoid alcohol, and to avoid deep vein thrombosis we should make the lives of the stewards unbearable by moving about the aircraft as much as possible. But there are tips here which won't be familiar to everyone: dress well and you have a better chance of an upgrade; eat lightly the day before flying and you'll feel a great deal more comfortable while you're doing it; don't (though this is debatable) take sleeping pills either before or after a flight - it only makes jet-lag worse. There are tips too on how to bag the best spare seats on a flight, and there is the stuff one doesn't think about, like how to put up with indefinite delays, how to cope with your neighbour's air rage, and how to set about surviving a crash. This is illustrated by a description of a crash so graphic that it will send many readers to the 'too-nervous-to-fly?' chapter. Clegg advises buying and carrying your own smoke hood, putting a cushion over your head, making a survival plan before the event actually happens, getting away from the plane as soon as you're out of it - and - importantly - not being afraid of looking a wimp by reading the aircraft safety card every time you fly. Aircraft vary, as do exits, the position of flotation devices, and so on. In short, if it doesn't frighten you to death, you could do far worse than read this book when you book your ticket - taking it as in-flight reading doesn't really work! (Kirkus UK)

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Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, UK, Brian was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and went on to read Natural Sciences (specializing in experimental physics) at Cambridge University. After graduating, he spent a year at Lancaster University where he gained a second MA in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to enhance the effectiveness of warfare through statistical means. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business. From Lancaster, he joined British Airways, where he formed a new department tasked with providing all PC hardware, software and consultancy to the airline. When this was successfully running, he set up the Emerging Technologies Group, a team of the most eccentric but talented staff in the company who researched and trialled technologies from fingerprint recognition to electronic cash. This emphasis on creativity led to working with Dr. Edward de Bono and in 1994, he left BA to set up his own creative consultancy, running one and two day courses giving in-depth insights into the use of creativity techniques to develop new ideas and products, and to solve business problems. His clients include HM Treasury, British Airways, SmithKline Beecham, The Met Office, Sony, The BBC, Zurich Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and many other blue-chips. Brian has given sell-out lectures at the Royal Institution in London and has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science. He has also contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian lives in a Wiltshire village with his wife and twin children. When not writing, a considerable amount of his time is involved in music, having a passion for Tudor and Elizabethan church music.

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