From this post you will learn how to facilitate the flight, how to get less tired during a long flight and correctly think through all the stages associated with the flight.
Surely you saw how people at the airport are often nervous, forget documents, get lost, are late for boarding, cannot fall asleep in an armchair. How to avoid this hassle? The correct answer is to prepare for the flight wisely.
Buying tickets, for example, with the help of Wizzair.
When buying tickets for a comfortable trip, it is worth considering several nuances:
Try to buy tickets for a direct flight to your destination. If you fly with a change, then try to buy a ticket with a minimum transfer time. For a comfortable transfer, in my opinion, it takes 1.5-3 hours between flights. Usually flights with convenient transfers sell out much faster than flights with transfers of 7-15 hours. Still, if you fly in the summer through a European city, where during a long transplant you can ride to see the city. And if it is a cold winter, then you simply sit all this time at the airport.
Choose the right type of aircraft. When buying airline tickets, I always look at the type of aircraft on which I have to fly. I try to avoid flying old Boeing and propeller aircraft. Not only am I afraid of flying on propeller-driven airplanes, but their cruising speed is much lower than that of airplanes with turbojet engines, which means that you will stay in the air much longer.
For example, when we were planning to fly from Prague to Riga, one of the flight options on the Aviasales website was a LOT flight with a transfer in Warsaw, and so the second part of the route was supposed to be on a De Havilland dhc-8 helicopter. We did not like it, and we bought a flight to Riga from Berlin. It cost less, the flight took place on a modern Airbus A319, and we also spent the whole day in Berlin.

If possible, always buy tickets for modern airplanes such as the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787, or for airplanes that are only 2-3 years old. In such aircraft, the air is better conditioned, and the flight is easier to carry.
It is worth considering such a moment that airlines buy airplanes with different seats and different pitch between the rows of seats. I remember how so many seats were crammed in Transaero Airlines that even a three-hour flight was very difficult to survive. Ksenia once flew an Alma-Ata-Moscow night flight on a Transaero plane, so the seats didn’t recline there, and after this flight she was awfully sleepy. But we survived the hours-long flight from Munich to Phuket by Qatar Airlines with a change in Doha quite well, because the step between the rows of seats is large, and the Qatari people put the most comfortable Rekarov chairs.
Pack your luggage and carry-on bag correctly
The first thing to do when preparing for the flight is to properly pack your suitcase and carry-on baggage. We put everything that you don’t need in flight into a suitcase.
If you have few things, you can put everything in a small bag or backpack. If you fly without luggage, or you need a lot of things in flight, it is better to take a special suitcase for hand luggage.
In the hand luggage we put everything necessary for the flight:
Documents: passport, visa, driver's license, insurance, hotel reservation, printed ticket and boarding pass. It is better to put the documents in some thick, lockable envelope so that the documents are not lost in the bag, and if necessary, they were easy to remove.
Gadgets: laptop, phone, camera, headphones, clock, powerbank. And all the chargers are to them. Do not forget to charge all the gadgets and download new films, series and music.
A small set of products for the flight: banana, apple, fruit-nut mixture (dried fruits), chocolate, candies, chewing gum, sandwiches. At airports, this is all expensive, and you may want to eat at any time.
First-aid kit and personal care products: toothbrush, glasses, paste, wet wipes, ordinary wipes. Medications for abdominal pain, heartburn, headache, allergies, bandage, patch, activated charcoal. Drops for nose and nose moisturizer. During the flight, due to unusual pressure, many have bloating, and activated charcoal can save you.
Things that come in handy at the airport or during the flight: sunglasses, an umbrella, a pen, a spoon for shoes, a pillow.
Things that may come in handy for the first time with a possible loss of baggage or when baggage is late: I usually take a clean T-shirt, flip flops, a few pairs of socks, a sweatshirt with a hood.
Now measure and weigh checked baggage and carry-on baggage. And compare the results with the baggage allowance of the airline you fly. It happens that the baggage allowance may be incorrectly indicated on the ticket, and it is better to get accurate information on the airline’s official website.
If you think that extra 2-3 kg in hand luggage or a suitcase will not interest anyone, then you are mistaken. Baggage is always weighed; carry-on baggage is weighed less often. And if you have extra pounds, then you will have to pay extra for them, it happens that for 2-3 kg airlines require you to pay 100 Euro. I have seen many times how, at airports, during check-in, tourists set up a circus with horses, moving things around. It takes a lot of time when people fly on a charter, have already wrapped their luggage with protective film, and they have to tear the film, figure out where to put things, swearing, mats are around, and the queue does not move. And imagine, after such shifts, people on the nerves who are tired should still fly.