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Keep popping Dramamine and sleep the whole way. That was me from Norfolk to Kuwait. Best flight ever. Really need an open seat beside you to make this the best. Or a good travel pillow?
I watch whatever movies are being shown, take a couple of natural sleep aids like valerian root and melatonin and pass out. I've also tried this product called Dream Water that worked well. It comes in a little shot, like those awful five hour energy drinks.
I don't feel comfort mixing medication with alcohol, so the natural stuff is better. Oh, forgot to mention I do have a few drinks as well!
1. Sleep if you can!
2. Slim paperback book if you don't have a ereader or want to worry about batteries
3. Slim volume of number/crossword puzzles or word puzzles with erasable pen
4. Find out if your plane has one of those personal entertainment systems, I spend whole flights just watching a few movies. Bring your own earphones if you have room in your carry-on
5. One long flight I brought a notebook and wrote personal notes to my family members to tuck into their holiday cards later that year. When I got to my destination I mailed the notebook back to my house since I didn't want to spend the return flight doing the same thing.
6. Similar to above, bring a note book and compose a few notes to your kids if you have any.
7. Write down stories from your childhood/family stories, start your own little archive.
I've done my share of long flights. It has a pattern set by the airlines - meals (i.e. dinner) about an hour after taking off, lights out, meals (i.e breakfast) about 2 hours before landing. Some times there is a snack in between. The crew dims the cabin lights, I would assume to induce sleep so that they are not bothered, and at that point I would say 90% of the passengers seem to go to sleep. Seriously. Reading lights are out, if it's daylight outside all the windows will be shut.
Now must airlines now have a fairly good VOD system so you have a choice of dozens, possible hundreds of movies and TV shows to watch, and games as well. There is also reading and, for your IPODs, some airlines, not all, have usb power ports.
But trust me - you will sleep most of the way, the cabin black-out will induce it, or, like me I don't really sleep but I listen to music and headphones and go into a zombie like state sort of half way in and out of sleep. You simply can't watch movies or read for 10 hours.
I bring a half dozen magazines and give them to the flight attendants as I finish them. My long hauls have all been in business/first, so I've had ample IFE at my disposal, plus my iPhone. There has always been either a 110 outlet or a USB port for charging. I read, sleep, eat, have a few drinks, watch a little TV or a movie, and repeat.
after being stuck with uninteresting seatmates one too many times, I now provide a script that I can give to them that will make their lives more interesting for me to converse with them. My last seatmate was assigned to be an Industrial Financier involved with smuggling opiates on the side who spoke with a lisp and had a pronounced face twitch due to be shot in the head by the Khmer Rouge. In truth she was a 77-year-old woman going to see her grandson's graduation from dental school but she played along just fine (even ad-libbing a saucy tale about Imelda Marcos) once I bought her a couple of Bloody Mary's.
What airline? What Route? What airplane if you know?
It is very likely that your seat will have a personal television set in it. You will be able to chose from hundreds of movies and tv shows, music, moving maps, documentaries, and games on that in seat television.
Besides for that:
Sleep, Read, walk around, I have an ipad which battery will last around 7-9 hours so I could watch movies on that, play the games, listen to music. I almost always get a window seat so I usually enjoy the view too.
I used to fly back and forth from Malaysia a lot so I'm I developed a pretty good routine. Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull followed by Wine Wine Wine Wine Wine Wine Wine Wine. Stay awake for the first half and sleep for the second half of the flight.
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