If you’ve ever flown business class, you may have been pleasantly surprised by the little tube of lip balm tucked into the amenity kit. But it’s not as random as it might first seem. It’s a pre-warning of the fate your lips will face on a long-haul flight, when you start to resemble a piece of biltong.
Your lips crack, your eyeballs feel as if they’ve been sandblasted, your skin has the texture of a cracker left out overnight, and you’re fairly sure your tongue has taken up permanent residence on the roof of your mouth. It doesn’t matter where you sit on the plane, whether in the back of economy or up front in 1A; the consequences of air…
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