Comments on: 9 things to do when you’re bored on a long flight

By: Juliana Fastiggi

Juliana Fastiggi — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:09:16 +0000

Great tips! But I’m not the best at math. That might take a really, infuriatingly long time! I like to plug my headphones in and just listen to all the songs you have on your iPod, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc. Then I just annoy whatever family member is flying with me, eat the terrible food they serve, and just bore myself to death for three hours. Is that weird?

By: Glen Cooper

Glen Cooper — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:56:53 +0000

457 months!!! Can’t wait for my 500th now… no wait, that would mean that I would be 40! ARrrrghhhh!!

By: Gordon Lethbridge

Gordon Lethbridge — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:29:10 +0000

I often take a blank crossword from the inflight magazine or other publication and try and fill it with alternative words to the solutions. If the flight is long enough then come up with clues (cryptic or otherwise). This has three advantages 1) I sometimes fall asleep as I close my eyes and contemplate the next possible clues; 2) It keeps my vocabulary memory active; 3) The finished product, if you manage it (I hardly ever do), is potentially saleable.

Other ideas include: listing all airlines flown, working out the percentage flown with each airline and constructing a league table (Singapore Airlines comes top as I have flown them twice to Oz, Easyjet and BA come second) and planning RTW flights around a certain theme (e.g. Cities with the world’s top 10 tallest buildings)

By: Julie M

Julie M — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:58:13 +0000

An elaboration on your theme: the alphabet game can be expanded: name a river for every letter of the alphabet; or a town in your home country for every letter; when over land, looking down and imagining yourself driving/walking/cycling along the topography below – what does it look like from ground level? if you are really desperate, remembering first dates back through the fog of time can be amusing!!!

By: Iain Mallory

Iain Mallory — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:45:34 +0000

Can’t say I have tried even one of these have to bear it in mind next time I am not just taking a short hop over the channel. I have probably spent most log haul flights annoying my fellow passengers by wandering around and chatting away when they just want to watch the the inflight entertainment.

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:14:57 +0000

Don’t you worry…you’re definitely not alone with these. I tend to use several of the ideas you listed and some of them I repeat over and over again, never quite reaching the same conclusion.

And thank you for the link!

By: Pete Heck

Pete Heck — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:27:19 +0000

Some good time passers here. We have some long flights coming up, so we might use some of these.

My wife and I always try to guess the exact time that the wheels will touch down on our flight before we take off. Once on a cross-country flight she was 42 seconds off. She still brags about that one.

By: Brad Benner

Brad Benner — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:22:38 +0000

Lucky for me I can fall asleep almost anywhere, at anytime, in record speed. I’ve actually been diagnosed with a condition! 🙂 Seriously, transportation (buses, cars, planes, trains) seem to work extra well for putting me to sleep!

By: George Bazhenov

George Bazhenov — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:12:41 +0000

In Number 2, the figure for landings will not tally with that for take-offs if you are a paratrooper. But then, paratroopers do not have sleeping problems, so why bother?

By: Jools Stone

Jools Stone — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:04:38 +0000

Count how many list points you need to rack up before officially reaching Rain Man status? 😉
Or you could lie back, think of England and look forward to your next train journey!