How to make your trip more enjoyable?
Plug it.
Cheap and readily available, earplugs mean you don’t have to put up with crying babies, loud passengers or startling pilot announcements, leaving you to catch 40 winks or read in peace.
What’s that smell?
If you get stuck next to a fellow traveller with less than pleasant body odour on a long-haul flight, save yourself by dabbing a little menthol lip balm under your nostrils.
Bring your own stuff.
If you know you won’t be able to sleep on long-haul flights without a personal effect – your own blanket, say bring it with you. That way, you won’t be deprived of a restful flight if the airline doesn’t provide the same.
Cover your laptop.
If you must work or play solitaire mid-air, close the cover whenever any form of liquid approaches. Many a computer has been ruined by accidents, turbulence and clumsy flight attendants in-flight!