Airbus A350 helps prevent jet lag

Airbus Industries may have found a way to prevent jet lag. The Airbus A350 will be fitted with LED lights and an air control system that help to mitigate the effects of jet lag. AIR FRANCE KLM has ordered 25 A350-900 aircraft with another 25 in option.

Jet lag disrupts our bodily clock, as we enter a different time zone. Finding a way to stabilize our clocks could reduce the chance of the familiar jet lag feeling after a flight. Here is where LED lights come in. Airbus A350 will be fitted with thousands of LED lights that produce 16.7 million shades of color. This wide array of colours help simulate different times of day.

A City Lab report describes how Airbus is planning to make us feel better: “traveling east means that you should speed up your bodily clock by exposing yourself to light early on in the flight. But if you’re traveling west, you’ll need to delay your internal clock by basking in light throughout dusk and early evening.” The purpose of the LED lights is to ease passengers into a new time zone. To help adjust our natural body temperatures, the plane’s air control system renews the air every two minutes and maintains a consistent temperature throughout the cabin.

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