Tom, if you are flying east, try to get a seat on the north (left) side of the plane -- the "radiant" of the meteor shower is almost at the North Star. (I have never seen a meteor from a plane, but I did see the Northern Lights once.) Also, if you will be in the mid-Atlantic, note that the predicted time of the peak of the shower is around 7 am British time (in other words, Universal or Greenwich time). So the shower might be washed out by the rising sun, depending on how far east you are.
But then again, as we all know, the whole thing could be a dud.
