Why do they call night flights "red eye"?

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kay

bcuz usually they are late at night and its when your usualy sleep so it tends to give people red eyes because they are soo sleepy

alwaysmoose

When you land you are so tired that your eyes are red.

vakayil k

A red-eye flight is a flight operated by an airline late at night or very early in the morning, during the period from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time. The term "red-eye" derives from the fatigue symptom of having red eyes. Red-eye flights are often called a "dry flight". This simply means that there is no moisture in the air at high altitudes during the late evening and early morning times.

Katherine S

I think because they are later flights and you are up late, making you sleepy and your eyes bloodshot

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Because after flying all night and getting only bits and pieces of sleep your eyes are all red.

Andrew

because most people get a red or or two from the night flight

Bryz

Your eyes are bloodshot from lack of sleep.....
NIGHT FLIGHTS ......... Try will kill you like the movie.....

Paul McDonald

Because of lack of sleep, your eyes will be red!

Resident Heretic

When you take them, you end up with red eyes from staying up all night traveling.

patrickmcvicker

Because no-one in their right mind can actually sleep in Coach seating on a long flight. Thus the dry, irritated, red-eyes. Additionally, it can mean that your flight either leaves or arrives in the very early AM.

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It's very hard to sleep at night on a plane that's flying millions of feet into the air.. lol. So you know how when you don't sleep your eyes are red and blood cracked? That's why it's a red eye. Few people get sleep so at landing you are tired and your eyes are well, red. Lol.
*sam :)

balderarrow

Because your eyes get red when you're tired.

Shellback

Because for many people it is hard for them to sleep in a passenger jet. I have this problem myself. So if they get on at night they do not get any real sleep and they arrive at their destination with red eyes. I have gone 10 hours like this and then there is the big time change.

pinkwoodrose

I think it is because when you arrive at your destination,,your eyes are red from being up all night.

MattCan

Because most people a) don't sleep well on planes anyway and b) you are often 'losing time' because you are crossing time zones, so a 5.5 hour flight from San Francisco to New York replaces the normal 8.5 hours you would have slept in bed.

People arrive with 'red-eyes' from lack of sleep.

ALOPILOT

When you are tired you rub your eyes and make them red... or they are just blood shot... but we wont go into why...

Rocker Dude

Because you don't get much sleep 'cuz it's too uncomfortable squished in that little space of a seat... and with the plane's engines making racket noises, not to mention other noisy passengers; oh, and it's a little hard for me to get to sleep on the plane also because it is constantly moving up and down with the vibrations, especially when experiencing turbulence... I feel like I was about to fall when I sleep on a plane.

Amelia

Because if you cant sleep on the plane, you arrive at your destination in the morning with red eyes from lack of sleep. So when you are in the airport in the morning and you see a bunch of people coming off an overnight flight, take a look at them; they mostly have sleepy, red eyes...

Brad

because the pilots are running on special type of radar system and they are literally blind. so the must rely on the :red eye: system to keep the plane parallel with the ground.

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