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January 2025

What’s your in-flight travel persona?

Harriet Cooper
Harriet Cooper

@girlnextthesea

January is the month to take stock of who you are and where you want to be – and our latest quiz is all about helping you with the former. Define your current in-flight persona with our easy questions and decide who you really want to embody on your next trip into the skies... 

Author Annie Dillard once wrote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”, and the same might be said for how we spend our flights. Or is it? For many, time in the skies is the long-awaited opportunity to binge the latest blockbusters and catch up on those TV dramas you missed the first time around – all while sipping a glass of wine and demolishing an endless stream of salted snacks. It’s something many people so rarely get to do at home, making it a deliciously decadent, undistracted treat. 

“Many people spend their hours on planes doing things they wish they had time to do back on home soil”

Not everyone, though, spends their hours at 35,000 feet glued to their in-flight entertainment screen. Indeed, just because your fellow travellers are on the same flight, going to the exact same destination, doesn’t mean you are all jet-setting in a similar way. While one traveller is on their watching spree, the person next to you could be using their sky-high window to meet a work deadline or brainstorm ideas. With life so busy on the ground, it’s the perfect chance to rip through – then rip up – that to-do list. 

The running theme here is how many people spend their hours on planes doing the things they wish they had time to do back on home soil. This includes those passengers who simply check in to check out. This sort of traveller is ready to detox from their normal routine and disconnect entirely once they’ve boarded the plane. 

Either way, everyone has their own unique persona when they’re in the air – and likely their favourite seat, too. So, who are you on board? 



This article has been tagged Adventure, Opinion