I know what white noise is..

Just wondering how it helps.. does it bore you to sleep?

Loud Snoring
 

On my last few TATL and TPAC flights I've had loud snoring passengers seated near me. By loud I mean you can still hear these douches even with earplugs.

Needless to say I find these people (always male) more annoying than the children who were much maligned in a recent thread - there are precious few kids (if any) in international C and most of them go right to sleep.

Up to now my I've employed a 2-pronged strategy: (1) Use in-ear noise suppressing earphones (2) whack the side or foot of their enclosure hard and see if that rousts them, which sometimes provides enough temporary peace to fall asleep.

How would you handle this situation?

Loud Snoring
 

"douches"? Are you a frat boy? How old are you?

You do know that people don't snore on purpose to annoy you, don't you? :rolleyes:

I am going to merge this thread with a long, interesting thread which addresses this issue
Obscure2k
TravelBuzz Moderator

Yeah, as much as I try to understand people's pet peeves and issues while flying, I never quite got why snoring caused so much ire. I can see why it may be annoying (and, as I said somewhere upthread, I do snore occasionally on planes, so I'm guilty), but at the end of the day, flying is public transportation--even if J and F. Unlike people who talk loudly or even parents who allow children to misbehave, there often really is no way to prevent one's self from snoring sometimes.

I think that touching, whacking, hitting, or otherwise deliberately contacting another passenger on an airplane in just about any context, and especially to "punish" or stop them for snoring, is completely unacceptable.

If someone woke me up (I am a snorer!) I probably wouldn't object and would be rather sympathetic. Most of the time if I'm asleep on a flight I'm so tired that I'll probably go straight back to sleep again.
But it does depend on the context. If I had managed to get some wine-induced sleep on an eastbound evening transatlantic flight, I would be quite annoyed at being woken up. (I am terrible at sleeping early in the evening and usually don't feel sleepy until we land in Europe. At this point it's now early morning and I have to wait another 16 hours before my next snooze.)
So it's another awkwardness that could be avoided by polite conversation. "Hey, if I snore feel free to wake me up. I don't mind."
vs.
"Hi, if I snore, please don't wake me up unless I am on fire. Otherwise you will go on my list."
:)

Ha--you make a good point. I agree that it's all in the approach. I have mixed feelings about the preemptive "I may snore" conversation, but it is not a bad idea, either. In fact, it's a great idea, as long as the seatmate is affable enough to appreciate the gesture, which is not guaranteed. I also think that tone matters. Whacking someone on the foot or jabbing an elbow into their side to wake them is quite a bit different than gently patting someone on the side with an "I'm sorry to wake you, but you were snoring." I still am not a fan of pax touching other pax, but I guess it can be done with tact in some cases.