We all know how excruciating air travel can be: we all have tales of endless delays, horrid seatmates, unhelpful help, expensive carb-laden airport food and general misery (watching a $70 jar of tiny face cream deemed a liquid being tossed into the trash certainly qualifies!), so why belabor them here?
While airports and flights are more to be endured than enjoyed these days, there are a few tactics that I've founded in my million plus miles that might help this holiday season.
Tip #1: Drown it Out
Top of my list is avoiding actual contact and conversation with everyone possible. My must-have? Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones. I prefer the over the ear version, Bernard prefers the on the ear version. Just believe us: they really work. And don't cheap out and buy imitations, these are the ones that you need. Expensive, but worth every penny.
Tip #2: A Well-Stocked IPod
I always carefully plan my traveling playlists. My preference on long flights are books and podcasts rather than music. Somehow it makes those 8 hour flights fly by. Audible's got the widest selection of book downloads, and manybooks.net has the widest variety of FREE downloads (mostly classics that are in the public domain). My favorite podcasts to travel with? This American Life, without question.
Tip #3: Real-Time Flight Status
Lifehacker offers several great ways to figure out what's going on with your flight. My favorite are text alerts: test either Google (466453) or 4INFO (44636) with the airline and flight number to get the status texted back to you immediately.
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