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Personally, I have 1 pair of cheap plug in earbuds (given free by airlines) in my travel backpack all the time. They take up no space and weight nothing at all and does the job when watching TV or movies in flight. The hardest part is to untangle the cord because it was rolled up in a ball in a hurry from last use.
This is my approach as well, but I have some fairly nice wired earbuds which are somewhat isolating. Airpods Pro for wireless (and fairly ok NC) , wired buds for the plane AV (and as a backup). Takes almost no space and weighs next to nothing.