If you’re going to fly from Bangkok to Europe in cattle class, and at least one of your flights will be 10-12 hours long, what kind of things do you try to do to make your flight experience more tolerable?

Do you bring a neck pillow or a seat cushion? Your own extra food? Wet wipes in case you want to take a dump on the plane? Your own hoodie to avoid freezing? Your own bottle so that you can fill it up when needed and have plenty of drinking water? Or do you survive on coffee and wine and go the full dehydration route?

I see some people who do absolutely nothing except take a bag of pills after the fasten seatbelt sign goes off, snore nonstop, and then wake up 12 hours later with their head buried on the shoulder of the bloke next to them.

One thing I try to do is stop myself from the temptation of watching too many terrible movies on the flight, ones that I would never watch if I were not stranded in the air for 12 hours. Actually, I bring my laptop so that I can watch a movie or two of my own choosing.

And nothing beats the bliss of great ANC from a pair of high quality blu tooth earbuds to drown out the engine noise. I travel with two pairs so that when the battery dies in the first pair, I can switch to the other while the first one recharges.

Select a bulkhead or exit row seat. Dress warm, and binge watch moves that you downloaded to your laptop. Bring some munchies.