ten tips for smart flying
The tips below may seem funny and/ or obvious. They're nevertheless needed, as the majority of travelers on all European airports I've seen is oblivious of flying common sense.
1. Only carry hand luggage if you can; can't be lost/ misplaced by the airline, you'll be in and especially out of airports faster, and traveling light allows you more mobility. Even you hand luggage, make it light, and leave room for last minute shopping—what a dread to march with all sorts of carrier bags!
2. Don't carry much hand luggage when there are several serious security controls. Check in all you can and only keep the necessary items—passport and ticket/ boarding pass, wallet, house keys, your phone and a book.
3. Carry your laptop in a manner that allows you to easily take it out and pack it back. Note that extra batteries are considered a security risk in some countries.
4. Use belts, watches, and generally accessories that do not contain metal. This way you needn't take them off.
5. If they contain metal, take them off before you reach security control and place them in a safe spot—e.g. closed hand luggage compartment/ pocket. It will ease your way through security control and show respect to other passengers.
6. Check-in online, choose your seat, and print your boarding pass(es) whenever possible. Why queue at the check-in desk when you could be sipping a coffee by the gate? Carry safety copies of your flying documents.
7. Keep your traveling documents in one place (e.g. envelope) and safe, yet always at hand. Have a ballpoint pen and a notebook at hand, too. For the latter I recommend Moleskine. The benefit of a notebook? You can at least play hangman while waiting.
8. Keep an eye on displays and an ear to announcements even if you read/ work. Changes (e.g. schedule, gate) are made all the time and not always communicated on all channels or in an international language.
9. Don't stand in the boarding queue at the gate unless:
10. Remember to enjoy flying. Tips 1-9 will help keep your smile.
1. Only carry hand luggage if you can; can't be lost/ misplaced by the airline, you'll be in and especially out of airports faster, and traveling light allows you more mobility. Even you hand luggage, make it light, and leave room for last minute shopping—what a dread to march with all sorts of carrier bags!
2. Don't carry much hand luggage when there are several serious security controls. Check in all you can and only keep the necessary items—passport and ticket/ boarding pass, wallet, house keys, your phone and a book.
3. Carry your laptop in a manner that allows you to easily take it out and pack it back. Note that extra batteries are considered a security risk in some countries.
4. Use belts, watches, and generally accessories that do not contain metal. This way you needn't take them off.
5. If they contain metal, take them off before you reach security control and place them in a safe spot—e.g. closed hand luggage compartment/ pocket. It will ease your way through security control and show respect to other passengers.
6. Check-in online, choose your seat, and print your boarding pass(es) whenever possible. Why queue at the check-in desk when you could be sipping a coffee by the gate? Carry safety copies of your flying documents.
7. Keep your traveling documents in one place (e.g. envelope) and safe, yet always at hand. Have a ballpoint pen and a notebook at hand, too. For the latter I recommend Moleskine. The benefit of a notebook? You can at least play hangman while waiting.
8. Keep an eye on displays and an ear to announcements even if you read/ work. Changes (e.g. schedule, gate) are made all the time and not always communicated on all channels or in an international language.
9. Don't stand in the boarding queue at the gate unless:
- you're among the first
- you're a special passenger (e.g. mom with baby carriage, person in wheelchair)
- seats are not allocated (e.g. on low-cost flights)
- you have a lot of hand luggage and need all available storage
- you enjoy standing for long minutes.
10. Remember to enjoy flying. Tips 1-9 will help keep your smile.
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7. OK, though I suggest a little sudoku or something else than a hangman, for which I presume I might need a partner..or is this a way to get aquainted to people in airports?
9. wrong wrong wrong, I might have the same place in the same plane, but I'll have to store my hand luggage God knows where, since those at the queue will be busy taking my luggage place;)
10. yes, yes, yes! I'm like a biiiiiiiiiird!
7. Or something :) I've noticed that people either love Sudoku or don't. Hangman: yep, if you travel alone.
9. That is why you can always stuck the light hand luggage either in the business class (sic! right on your way to the exit) or under the seat in front of you--unless you're by the emergency exit doors, where you shouldn't be unless you need all that space for legs.
10. Me too!
The business class tip is a good one - there's almost always space in business for hand luggage, so those of us flying economy can just dump our luggage as we go through, as long as the couple of things needed for the journey have been removed. You're also guaranteed to have an easy time picking the luggage up when you leave the plane. You're never stuck waiting for the plane to empty before going backwards to get the missing item.
Precisely what I had in mind, plus further and better explained. Thanks, sweetie!
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