What would you not be without on a long flight?
Aug 17, 2011, 2:26 pm
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Cebu City
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Posts: 54
What would you not be without on a long flight?
My 'must take' plane travel items: (12 hour flights, you betcha)
1) Small goose down pillow, crushed down into flexible courier bag for carry on (same pillow I sleep on at home, so no need to sleep on those foam cubes at the destination hotel)
2) Ear plugs. Silencio brand, silicon filled, conform to your ear. The twins behind me screaming their heads off can't cut through these.
3) Bose noise cancelling earphones. Much better sound than those provided by the airline and cut the exterior noise at the same time.
4) Kindle, loaded with good books.
5) Sweatshirt to wear at 40,000 feet when you can't turn off the a/c.
What else would you never be without on a long flight?
1) Small goose down pillow, crushed down into flexible courier bag for carry on (same pillow I sleep on at home, so no need to sleep on those foam cubes at the destination hotel)
2) Ear plugs. Silencio brand, silicon filled, conform to your ear. The twins behind me screaming their heads off can't cut through these.
3) Bose noise cancelling earphones. Much better sound than those provided by the airline and cut the exterior noise at the same time.
4) Kindle, loaded with good books.
5) Sweatshirt to wear at 40,000 feet when you can't turn off the a/c.
What else would you never be without on a long flight?
Aug 17, 2011, 2:29 pm
#2
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 13,573
My 'must take' plane travel items: (12 hour flights, you betcha)
1) Small goose down pillow, crushed down into flexible courier bag for carry on (same pillow I sleep on at home, so no need to sleep on those foam cubes at the destination hotel)
2) Ear plugs. Silencio brand, silicon filled, conform to your ear. The twins behind me screaming their heads off can't cut through these.
3) Bose noise cancelling earphones. Much better sound than those provided by the airline and cut the exterior noise at the same time.
4) Kindle, loaded with good books.
5) Sweatshirt to wear at 40,000 feet when you can't turn off the a/c.
What else would you never be without on a long flight?
1) Small goose down pillow, crushed down into flexible courier bag for carry on (same pillow I sleep on at home, so no need to sleep on those foam cubes at the destination hotel)
2) Ear plugs. Silencio brand, silicon filled, conform to your ear. The twins behind me screaming their heads off can't cut through these.
3) Bose noise cancelling earphones. Much better sound than those provided by the airline and cut the exterior noise at the same time.
4) Kindle, loaded with good books.
5) Sweatshirt to wear at 40,000 feet when you can't turn off the a/c.
What else would you never be without on a long flight?
Aug 17, 2011, 2:49 pm
#3
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 599
Phone and laptop chargers, my own IFE when I'm stuck in the back of yet another crappy UA 747, music and headphones. And a pen. I hate having to scrounge one right before landing for customs forms. Ought to start carrying a water bottle, even after all of the mini-bottles and dixie cups, that'd never occurred to me.
I don't really bother with devices anymore, given that I already have to lug around a laptop, why bother with yet more weight in my bag?
I don't really bother with devices anymore, given that I already have to lug around a laptop, why bother with yet more weight in my bag?
Aug 17, 2011, 3:50 pm
#4
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: PDX
Programs: AS
Posts: 406
I thought I could keep this simple:
iPad, Beats headphones, and a couple energy bars.
But then there's the supporting elements... chargers & my outlet splitter for layovers. A book for incase it gets that delayed. Bubble-gum to fend off a bored kid. Sweathshirt if I'm not headed somewhere warm. Trail mix if I skipped a meal or it's that long.
In the end I take the same backpack about anywhere... it's pretty full and while I don't use half the stuff on any one trip it all gets used across a few.
iPad, Beats headphones, and a couple energy bars.
But then there's the supporting elements... chargers & my outlet splitter for layovers. A book for incase it gets that delayed. Bubble-gum to fend off a bored kid. Sweathshirt if I'm not headed somewhere warm. Trail mix if I skipped a meal or it's that long.
In the end I take the same backpack about anywhere... it's pretty full and while I don't use half the stuff on any one trip it all gets used across a few.
Aug 17, 2011, 5:47 pm
#7
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Location: Newport Beach, California, USA
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I define a long flight as transpac or transatlantic.
iPod with extra battery
Bose QC15
Alcohol
Laptop (uses same extra battery as iPod)
Pen (nothing I hate more than not having a pen to fill out the arrival card)
iPod with extra battery
Bose QC15
Alcohol
Laptop (uses same extra battery as iPod)
Pen (nothing I hate more than not having a pen to fill out the arrival card)
Aug 17, 2011, 6:34 pm
#8
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: NYC
Posts: 511
Pen (International Flights)
Book/Magazine.
Headphones
Ipod/Iphone
Gum (for obvious reasons)
This is my usually survival kit. I tend to sleep for half of the flight and I have more than enough entertainment for the hours I am conscious on the plane.
Book/Magazine.
Headphones
Ipod/Iphone
Gum (for obvious reasons)
This is my usually survival kit. I tend to sleep for half of the flight and I have more than enough entertainment for the hours I am conscious on the plane.
Aug 17, 2011, 9:16 pm
#12
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: BHM
Programs: AAdvantage
Posts: 83
At least two pens*
Sudoku book
Magazines
Lip balm (Burt's Bees is my preferred brand)
A bag of almonds (either Jordan Almonds or cocoa-roasted almonds)
Sugar-free Coffee Nips
Gum (Orbit Spearmint)
Eye drops
Mints
*Thanks to the thread starter for reminding me to replace the pens in my carry-on bag. On my last flight one pen developed a nasty leak and the other got lost, and I'd completely forgotten to to put new ones in my bag until just now.
Sudoku book
Magazines
Lip balm (Burt's Bees is my preferred brand)
A bag of almonds (either Jordan Almonds or cocoa-roasted almonds)
Sugar-free Coffee Nips
Gum (Orbit Spearmint)
Eye drops
Mints
*Thanks to the thread starter for reminding me to replace the pens in my carry-on bag. On my last flight one pen developed a nasty leak and the other got lost, and I'd completely forgotten to to put new ones in my bag until just now.
Last edited by BamaDude; Aug 17, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Aug 18, 2011, 12:52 am
#14
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Ear plugs
Sweater or fleece jacket
Enough to read
Eye shades
My carry-on(s)--I almost never check luggage
I suspect that by next year the list will include an Ipad with movies downloaded on it, but for now on international J I'm fine with IFE and on domestic I'm indifferent to IFE.
Sweater or fleece jacket
Enough to read
Eye shades
My carry-on(s)--I almost never check luggage
I suspect that by next year the list will include an Ipad with movies downloaded on it, but for now on international J I'm fine with IFE and on domestic I'm indifferent to IFE.