Traveling is a thing everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. It offers you heaps of great emotions and fills you up with memories that you’re bound to cherish till the end of your sweet days.
You get to learn about different countries and people’s cultures, meet great companions, and try all the mouth-watering foods of our world.
However, the actual travel process can be rather stress-inducing. The packing, a dreadfully long wait at the airport, and what seem like endless security checks – and don’t forget the unforeseen circumstances – these things are not fun for most.
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Keep your hair, feet, hands to your f*****g self.
GrimmandLily , Lenny DiFranza Report
Make sure to pet the plane right before you get on and tell it that it is a good plane. I do that every time and the plane never crashes.
thetailofdogma , Derral Chen Report
- Take a picture of your passport. Keep a copy on your phone and a hardcopy in your luggage. 2. Take a picture of your luggage. If it is lost, showing the picture to the lost luggage person helps a lot.
Leabhras , sean hobson Report
This one is pretty general, but from experience I guess it still needs saying: If a person has headphones on, earbuds in, whatever, don’t try to make small talk. It’s nothing personal, but some people have really long days at airports (Can’t tell you how many red-eyes I’ve caught after waiting standby all day) and just don’t want to talk. Follow-up, for the flip side of this instance: If you’re listening to music, be reasonable about the volume. The people around you shouldn’t be able to hear your tunes.
Maj_Prismatic , Sascha Kohlmann Report
If you have a lot of time to kill, find the area in baggage claim where pets are reunited with their owners. It’s a blast watching those dogs get out of their carriers, and they all behave differently.
Scrappy_Larue , zhao hui Report
I’ve flown over a million miles so hopefully this helps. Make sure to check behind you before you throw your seat back when reclining, the overhead bins are shared spaces, if you have a backpack it’s best under the seat in front of you to save room in the overhead. The person in the window seat gets the wall and an arrest, the middle person gets two armrests, the aisle person gets a little extra leg room and an armrest. Treat your flight attendants with respect. Most of all flying is inherently miserable so don’t be a d**k.
Kazimierz3000 , kooikkari Report
Late to the discussion, but… If you’re a smaller person and a large person sits next to you, do not say “yes” if they ask to put up the arm rest between you. I feel a little bad for them because they are crammed into a small seat, but the most miserable flight I’ve ever had was having 1/3 of my seat taken by another person.
jasonf_00 , Tom Mascardo Report
Once the plane lands and the seatbelt sign is switched off, just…chill. Stay comfortably in your seat until people start exiting the plane. There is no point standing with your head hitting the overhead locker for five minutes - it’s not going to get you off any sooner.
Danvan90 , Edward Simpson Report
You can’t bring a bottle of water through security, but you can bring an empty bottle through security and fill it up once you are inside the terminal.
alexja21 , oatsy40 Report
Quit crowding the fking gate when it’s not your turn. Your seat will be there.. Unless you’re on southwest then stand where you belong. Edit: in order to answer the question– to improve your gate experience, and the experience of those around you, wait for your turn instead of crowding the gate. Really bumps up your experience from sty to almost s**ty
lolwuuut , frankieleon Report
Not a frequent flyer but in my experience frequent flyers say try not check bags if you can help it. If you have to, try to have medicines and a change of clothes in your carry on if they lose your checked bag
42of1000accounts , Francisco Antunes Report
It doesn’t matter how much time you think you have before your flight, find your gate first, and confirm it is the right one for your flight. Then, set an an alarm on your phone to give you plenty of time to get back in time to board. Missing your flight because you don’t realize how far away your gate is will be a mistake you only make once, but better to not make at all.
FuglytheBear , Keenan Pepper Report
Early morning flights FTW — a lot less can go wrong with the first flight of the day, that plane is typically there overnight so you aren’t waiting on crew or equipment. Security lines are shorter. Traffic to the airport sucks less. Reclining, especially in steerage, is a moral failing and should be avoided at all costs.
wwb_99 , Steve Lynes Report
When they start the boarding process, you don’t have to stand up and queue. It usually takes a long time and you have a seat assigned to you anyway, so relax a bit more before your flight.
annievaxxer , Alan Wilson Report
For the love of god, if everyone could learn that people should get out of their seat by alternating rows, de-boarding would be so much easier.
A2134263148a , Mark Hillary Report
If you get stuck in a middle seat, you can put a coat or blanket over your legs and tuck it under you to hold your legs relatively close together. This will allow you to fully relax your leg muscles without bumping into your neighbors.
s3rpic0 , Jay Cross Report
If you are taking a bus to the airport, and there is one that gets there 3 hours before your flight, and one that gets there half an hour before your flight. Take the one that’s there 3 hours before and just have time to relax, and you don’t have to worry about your bus being late/stuck in traffic.
FrenchWoodChesse , Simon_sees Report
I learned the hard way my first time flying overseas: drink a s**t ton of water while you’re waiting on your layover. Just bring an empty canteen or aluminum water bottle to fill up at fountains. I know you don’t want to get up to pee all the time, but on a long haul flight you’ll get sick, bloated, headachey, and dried out if you don’t hydrate. Drink up. You’ll thank me later.
BowmanTheShowman , faungg’s photos Report
The most important tip: NEVER fly Spirit!
scotchleaf , Raymond Wambsgans Report
Screenshot your boarding pass and keep your ID in your front pocket makes security as simple as possible. EVERYTHING goes in your bag before you even get in line (wallet, keys, belt, shoes). Edit: Turn the brightness on your phone ALL THE WAY UP when presenting your boarding pass in security lines or when you board the plane. Lock the orientation on your phone, with the QR code open, and place your phone about a foot above the scanner. Push the phone down onto the glass scanner, and then raise it back up. This is the best way to scan that QR code… those scanners can be finicky.
[deleted] , Nate B Report
Pack half the clothes and twice the money. If you have to check a bag, keep changes of underwear with you in your carry-on. Over-the-ear headphones are much more comfortable for long haul flights than on-ear or buds. Start doing stretches to limber up your hips and back a few weeks before a long flight. Don’t use public wifi. If you have to, use a VPN.
[deleted] , Todd Porter Report
anon , Jun Seita Report
My personal favorite is taking a sturdy, empty, reusable water bottle and a bottle of Koolaid/Mio/etc concentrate. That way you have something yummy to drink, the concentrate is small enough to get through TSA, and you’re not paying for expensive drinks past security.
Geekprincessia Report
There’s a clip in the film Up In The Air where George Clooney basically profiles the respective people in the security line. Watch it; everything he touches on is correct. Then choose your line accordingly - tl;dr = line up with business travellers.
thekingoftherodeo , ERIC SALARD Report
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.. Do NOT stop in the red zone
theREDdot- , Avinash Bhat Report
- You will lose luggage eventually. Be ready for that by having cash and essentials for overnight on your person. 2. If the overhead bins are completely full, they’ll usually check your bag free. So no need to worry about rushing the door before your group is called. Chill out. Wait for your group. You’ll be fine. 3. Netflix episodes can be downloaded to watch offline. Great for when there’s no in flight wifi.
thwinks , Stock Catalog Report
Take all that stuff out of your pockets before you get to the security checkpoint and put it in a small compartment on your carry-on. Now you have one less thing to juggle while trying to keep your belts-less pants up after going through the x-ray machine.
MyKidsArentOnReddit , Dan Moyle Report
Study the terminal maps before you get to a connecting airport. Knowing where you’re going - especially with limited time to make a connecting flight - is a godsend.
[deleted] , Konstantinos Koukopoulos Report
After traveling to the same cities multiple times, I make sure to know what each airport has to offer in case I have extra time there. For instance, Portland has a great little free theater with local short films. Many airports have massage places. Midway has a free use yoga studio. Sitting around being bored is for suckers.
[deleted] , whity Report
There’s a little latch underneath the outside arm rests. When pulled, you can adjust your arm rest up or down. For larger people it can give you a few more inches of a** and hip space.
platyviolence , Phillip Capper Report
If you fly a lot, get a rewards credit card with that airline. After flying frequently for work for a couple years, I now have platinum memberships with different airlines. Which means I get free checked bags, priority boarding, access to the lounge in airports that has free food and booze, and best of all free upgrades to first class if there are open seats. Not to mention all the free flights I’ve gotten from racking up points on the card. My company reimburses my flights, so I charge them to the card but get to keep all the points for personal use
[deleted] , Tomás Del Coro Report
You wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes.
SternumBush , imke.sta Report
I carry one of those neck pillows in it’s neck pillow bag clipped on to my carryon. I put everything in there I want to have quick access to in the flight. My tablet, headphones, cables, and a pen if flying international. That way I don’t have to get up and try digging through my carryon after I’m already seated. Plus I leave that stuff in there and it doesn’t have to touch the inside of the seat back pocket.
blargh2947 , DanaK~WaterPenny Report
If there are no good ($0) seats left during seat selection proceed without selecting a seat. There’s a good chance all the crap middle seats will get selected by others and you’ll end up getting a seat they were trying to charge $30 for.
dinardo Report
ONLY people in the bulkhead should put both of their bags in the overhead bins.
sln84 , Hideyuki KAMON Report
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