[inpd]

Hi,

I'm starting to get excited about coming home in
a few weeks. But the trip from LAX to MEL is 15 hours
and with United, no in-flight entertainment system. Yikes

Apart from sleeping, what do you do on long flights
to pass the time?

[odoherty]

No in flight entertainment? OMG. I didn't realise United was that bad!

Nowadays, I wouldn't even fly an airline that doesn't have seatback monitors!

Do you have an iPod?

[NM]

In no particular order:

• Read a book
• Drink
• Wastch the movies
• Drink
• Play games on my PPC
• Drink
• Work (laptop)
• Drink
• Sleep
• Drink
• Eat
• Drink
• Visit the loo after all that drinking!
• Chat with my neighbour
• Chat up the flight attendents (oop, sorry, you said you were flying United so scratch that one off the list)

There are plenty of good things available to help to maximise the sleep time during the flight.

[stuandmel]

Drink, Eat, Temazepam, sleep

[Dave Noble]

Watch movies and tv programmes on my laptop
play scrabble n other games on PC

Dave

[bigjobs]

on a flight like that i would have a book, music on my laptop, and several dvds organised along with a couple of sleeping pills.

no entertainment system just plain sucks, i would change if i could.

[serfty]

• Drink
• Eat
• Read a (hard) copy of A Kiwi Flyer's Month of Madness Trip report.
• Prepare for landing :P

hmmm... Seriously
• Drink
• Eat
• Drink
• Get as much sleep as you possibly can
• Go for a walk or four around the aircraft
• Take plenty of lightweight reading material. (the weight being light, not the content :P )

[cssaus]

You haven't said what class you're flying and that can make a huge difference on that flight. UA does have inflight movies but doesn't offer the degree of inflight entertainment that someone like SIA does.

I do the LAX-SYD several times a year on UA in business and given the time that the flight leaves LAX essentially all I want to do is sleep the whole way. A couple of STILNOX usually do the trick and I find that I'm out for a good few hours.

For the night flight I don't really care for a meal (except for a breakfast in the morning). I might catch one of the movies that are showing but that's about.

Going the other way on the day flight I tend to partake in the meals and I usually manage to catch several of the movies on offer. I read and also listen to music. Might nap for an hour or two.

All of the above with particular reference to the drinking.

[NM]

My references to drinking were purely in relation to consumption of copious amounts of water, of course 8) .