Use a wheel chair in the air port. I know it might sound as too much or like faking it if you don't have trouble walking - at least it felt so to me, when someone once suggested it to me. However air ports are often exhausting even for healthy people; for people with lupus or other illnesses they can be so mentality and physically excruciating to get through that it can ruin the holiday.

Before I tried this advice, I couldn't do anything the first couple of days after coming to my destination. I was just lying in bed with pains and fatigue while my friend's / family went out. After I used a wheelchair I could even go out for dinner the night of the arrival like everybody else. The difference was huge.