I listen to my iPod, make use of the in-flight entertainment system if there is one and there's anything on it that interests me, do sudoku, and read. I try to pick books that are fairly easy reading and that don't take a lot of concentration, or at least that are easy to put down and pick up again. I also sometimes sleep, if I'm lucky.

I've never been able to sleep on planes, so for longer flights I usually load my ipod with one or two seasons of my favourite TV shows, a few hours of stand-up from some of my favourite comedians, and bring a newspaper to get me by during take-off/landing when I can't have my earphones in.

If I fly on a Sunday I love getting a couple of the Sunday papers before hopping on the plane. If you read most of the New York Times (with magazine) and a Washington Post sunday paper, it can get you through hours of flight.

Now that AC has Individual IFE...
 

...I watch movies/tv, and read the papers and magazines I take from the lounge.

for me it's ch9 on ua's ife with my n/c headphones and if ch9 is not available, then out comes my i-pod with family guy and three stooges videos.....

read, talk, think, work, movies, drink, eat, sleep, musing, blogging, etc

I used to commute DEN-SAN, and played my PSP for most of the trip. I alternate between Madden, MLB, and Tiger Woods Golf. For longhaul I'll watch movies, listen to ipod, read magazine or book for takeoff and landing.

Did you get Sudoku for your DS? So much easier. Except it always thinks my 1 is a 7.

Mostly I sleep on the plane but that's because I'm usually on a CRJ and there just isn't the elbow room to do much else. When I do have room however, I read, play on the DS or if there's AVOD watch something or play trivia against the other passengers. I still carry my ipod with me but I don't think its had a charge on it in over a year. It really only ever got used for longhaul when I was ready to go to sleep. Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky for sleepy time. No Bach lullabies for me, mostly piano and violin concertos.

read during taxi/takeoff, Tivo to Go^ on the laptop. Maybe bring along Serato(DJ) laptop to organize crates & cue points for gigs.

Same except Shure headphones.

I also have Skymall memorized...or else it seems that way.
I read every airline magazine every month. I try to rotate airlines just to read more magazines, although there is so little actual content that I'm usually done before take off. That Cyogenics guy really creeps me out.

• Clip fingernails
• Open window shades during movies
• Recline my seat
• Kick seat in front of me
• Pass gas
• Play “It’s my armrest”
• Open air vent and point it down the neck of person in front of me if they recline
• Drink all the free drinks I can
• Watch movies /play video games sans headphones
• Apply clear fingernail polish
• Hit head for a “number 2”
• Grab seatback in front of me to wake up person in front
• Read seatmates documents they are working on
• Watch seatmates movies, ask to borrow their headphones
• Trade seats with the aisle guy
• Con the sky waitress out of free drinks
• Hit on hot person next to me
• Make sales calls on my phone right before door closes real loud
• Invoke a general DYKWIA attitude as people walk past me in first
:D

Opera DVDs on the laptop, Shure SCL3s in the ears - heaven! :D

Eat, sleep, eat, sleep... with noise cancelling canal ear phones playing classical music.

:D:p

Listen to iPod & try to sleep. Last flight I tried to knit but there just isn't enough elbow room in cattle class.