What do you do on planes?

Swiss Plane - This is a Swiss Airplane.
Netherlands
July 27, 2009 4:14pm CST
What do you guys usually do on planes? read? do sudoku? watch a movie? sleep?i usually just fall asleep on a short flight but if it's a really long flight, then i just mostly sleep and watch movies. i keep on telling myself that i should read but i never do:P
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
27 Jul 09
I usually buy a magazine (those that I wouldn´t spend money on then in any other ocation)and read a bit. I sleep or doze if it´s a long night flifght. Besides, stewardess keed passengers busy giving and taking away food, expensive duty free catalogue items, and so on. I spend at least half an hour discovering that the movie is bad and the earphones are worse. With all that, we are near our destiny
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@jeg2315 (197)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I cannot sleep on planes. Even on a 23-hour flight once, I could only nap for maybe 20 minutes. Just something about planes where I can't sleep - maybe if I ever fly first-class I can sleep then. Otherwise, I will listen to music, read, watch the in-flight movie, or talk with my family/brothers. I have only flown when we take family vacations, so it is nice having someone to talk to that way.
• Netherlands
28 Jul 09
my mom is exactly like that. she can't sleep on planes at all while i just sleep :P yeah i guess we all do the same things. i wonder if anyone has tried doing something really different.
@his0yir (258)
28 Jul 09
I think it is difficult to do anything VERY special in the tiny narrow aircraft. I tried to talk to people next to me but it didn't last long because it hurt my neck to turn around to look at them. Eating, reading, sleeping and watching movies are probably most common things people do on planes. Some kids just play video games. Of course, for parents with babies most of their time will be occupied by their little creature. Otherwise, chatting with good-looking flight attendants is also a good way to kill the time. :P
@lala501 (1532)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Well I have only been on a plane once, and that was flight was only 2 hours so I didn't sleep. I just talked to me siblings, and go to the bathroom every five minutes(I had a lot of water). I brought a notebook but I didn't get around to drawing or writing in it because the flight was so short. I basically just looked at the clouds the whole time.
@his0yir (258)
27 Jul 09
I find it difficult to read on plane. Like you, I usually sleep on short flights and watch movies on long flights. Sometimes I would read magazines edited by flight companies since they are in the pocket in front of me. Every now and then I will get up and move around or go to the toilet. I am movie lover, so if there is personal entertainment system on the plane, I tend to watch all the movies available on that flight. I always ask for some snacks or biscuits and drinks from flight attendants to keep my movie-watching time relaxing. :P
• Netherlands
28 Jul 09
i do that too! the magazines are quite entertaining lol. yeah once, on a 12 hour flight, i never got up to go to the toilet so when we landed , my legs were like jelly!
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@cindy27 (130)
• Philippines
6 Aug 09
aside for taking a nap.. i always take advantage of flight time in reading and if possible finishing my favorite books.. or if something i like to do in my spare time like watching movie which i look forward to do but can't during my regular days.. with that i really enjoy even a long flight.
• Belgium
6 Aug 09
I always try to sleep but I can never go to sleep in the airplane because of the huge sound of engine. So I soemtimes watch movies and play games.
@KupoSin (680)
• United States
27 Jul 09
i try to watch the movie that they show, but i dont when they charge you for the headphones. i try to catch up on any reading that i want to do. i play on my psp if im bored. its really anything. i find flying to be one of the most boring things to do. it goes by really really slow for me
• Malaysia
29 Jul 09
same here, if it's a long flight, i'd usually go to sleep and watch the in-flight movies. sometimes i play the games too.
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
27 Jul 09
If I have a window seat, I take pictures out the window! I always bring my camera on flights and I like to snap photos of the earth below, or of the clouds. I often get some very beautiful photos! When I'm not taking pictures, I usually listen to my iPod or play my DS or PSP.
@zhpshql (693)
• China
28 Jul 09
Hello. I always take some newspapers or magzines with me ,then I can read during the jounry. Or take some snacks to eat,while listening to the music,even I have a window seat,I don;t like to see below,because I'm kind of fear height~~
@playapal (894)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I usually read or take a nap. As we get close to our destination I have my face pressed against the window looking at where we are. I always get a window seat!
@abenitez (501)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I take a books to read and I never end up reading them. I usually just sleep or talk to my fiancee when we fly together. I also listen to a lot of music on flights.
• New Zealand
27 Jul 09
If im on an international flight there are usually individual entertainment screens on which you can play games (sudoku, who wants to be a millionaire, tertris) ect.., learn a language, build a playlist of music and choose between hundreds of movies from recent releases to classics and television shows. Sadly I find it difficult to fall aspleep on a plane so I tend to watch a few movies untill I get sleepy enough that I was aspleep. I too take books on my carry on luggage which I sometimes read.