During the Flight

We strive to make you feel as good as possible during your flight. We pay a great deal of attention to your health and comfort on board.

Caring for Your Comfort

We strive to make your time spent on board Czech Airlines pleasant. An integral part of a successful flight is enjoying high-quality refreshments. You can look forward to balanced, diverse, and light meals, and an extensive selection of beverages.

You will be seated in comfortable, reclining seats. On selected flights, your comfort will be enhanced with a blanket and a small pillow. You time will pass faster when you listen to music or watch films and travel documentaries (in-flight entertainment). On selected flights, Business Class passengers are offered a gift set to enhance their comfort on longer flights (a so-called amenity kit).

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Caring for Your Health

Our crews undergo regular first-aid training. Your cabin crews will provide qualified care to passengers who should experience medical difficulties during their flight. Each aircraft carries first-aid medical supplies. All our long-haul aircraft are also equipped with defibrillators.

In the event of serious medical complications, the crew will find out whether there is a doctor on the flight, and/or contact help on land. Immediately after arrival, the patient is handed over to doctors for professional treatment or transport to a hospital.

Nausea

Flying may cause nausea in certain people. We offer you several tips on how to prevent nausea:

• Do not fly on an empty stomach: eat light meals before and during the flight, such as fruit, vegetables, salad, cookies
• Do not drink alcohol, coffee, or black tea
• Do not smoke
• Do not eat spicy or heavy meals before the flight
• Tank up on vitamin B1 before your flight (found for example in artichokes, asparagus, fish, natural rice, pork, and wheat products)
• Ginger also helps fight nausea, so enjoy a cup of natural ginger tea, which has no side-effects on your body
• Select an aisle seat close to the wings, where the aircraft shakes the least
• If necessary, consult your physician about taking nausea medication

Thrombosis

Although flying offers the fastest means of transport, long-haul flights mean many hours of sitting, and do not allow for sufficient movement. This can cause blood circulation problems for some passengers. Therefore we recommend that you adhere to the following rules, especially during long flights:

• Drink sufficient volumes of water
• Avoid drinking alcohol, coffee, and black tee
• Unless you have to, do not use tranquilising or sleep medication
• Take a walk from time to time during a long flight
• Do exercises to enhance blood circulation in your legs (examples of recommended exercises can be found in the Czech Airlines Review in-flight magazine)
• If you have problems with circulation, use compression stockings during the flight
• If you use medication, always carry it on you