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(updated June 2018) I've read for years that researchers had found that selective fasting can help alleviate jet lag but I'd never tried it until this trip. The idea is simple: a day or two before you depart, you figure out when you'll be asleep in the new time zone and you fast during your pre-bedtime and sleeping hours. We were taking JAL's 787 service ( trip report here ) leaving Tokyo at 6pm, this meant that we had a late breakfast and then had to fast until they started serving food on board (ca. 8pm). My husband's "hangry" fits are legendary. Like I actually carry around power bars and nuts with me entirely on the off chance he gets low blood sugar and turns into a Snickers commercial. But he loves sleep more than anything so he fully volunteered to try this if it meant better sleeping when we got back. Not eating from like 11am until 8pm was tough for both of us, but the anec-data here is that we both had virtually no jet lag . From what I...

TL;DR   This flight is exactly what you want from a Business Class trip: great lounge, good food, good liquor, a comfortable bed, Wi-Fi, and a bit of entertainment, all politely and professionally executed.  COST 105,00 Avios points + $145 in fees per person Cash cost would have been $5800 (i.e., 5.2¢ per point) How I did it PRO row 1 still has the same stowage and space as other Business Class rows the seat design is a nice middle ground between intimacy and privacy.  787 has higher humidity and cabin pressure, plus it's much quieter and has bigger windows  one of the few British Airways Avios redemptions that doesn't have astronomical co-pays toto washlets  better bedding that ANA Business Class  (my review of their competing flight here ).  CON even in a new terminal, they boarded the whole plane through the front door the window seat can be a bit claustrophobic  no personal air vent controls (aka gaspers) no pajamas ...