Passenger on my aircraft flight was snoring for an hour

[Dave Hess]

Passenger on my flight was snoring very loudly for an hour and luckily they were a few rows behind me. It was an early bird flight that took off at 5:45 AM so maybe they didn’t drink any coffee before this A321neo flight to Texas. The flight attendant didn’t want to disturb snoring passenger.

What would you do if the person next to you was snoring very loudly and you didn’t know them ?
Do you gently bump them a few times with your elbow ?
Do you ignore them ?

The passenger woke up when the pilot activated the thrust reversers after a very smooth landing.

 

[wpod]

Could have woke the passenger up.

 

[dishdude]

Get yourself a good set of noise cancelling headphones or ear plugs. Every flight will have a snoring passenger, a crying baby or both. Nothing you can do about either.

 

[eljefino]

Let them sleep. Be jealous.

 

[BHopkins]

Let them be.

Snoring is not a behavior that can be controlled, so I tend to be tolerant. It's not like the group of four ladies that carried on a long, loud conversation, across the aisle, on a flight I took last week. They made a conscious choice, and could have controlled that behavior.

 

[Egg_Head]

Take the puke bag, blow it up with air and pop it about 2 rows behind him.

 

[Cujet]

The suggestion for noise cancelling headphones is a good one. I have probably 20 of them for our various corporate aircraft, and I do like the Bose QC45's for airline use. As to whether they are good enough to filter out snoring, probably not. I've found that I prefer SkullCandy earbuds for the sound quality, and when I have a noisy seatmate, I use the earbuds under the Bose. That's the best solution I see.

Of course, ear plugs would work too, but I prefer to listen to a book.

A note on sound quality. The Bose QC45 headphones are bluetooth 5.1, with the standard audio codec. Good sound quality via bluetooth, but not as good as my wired Bose QC 25's. And nowhere near as good as a nice set of earbuds.

 

[99Saturn]

(Noise canceling) headphones and a white noise app. People only get a nudge on the bus/train/flight if they start to lean on me.

 

[JWC86]

Get yourself a good set of noise cancelling headphones or ear plugs.

I agree with this. I picked up a set of AirPods after having them on my radar for a couple years.
I was blown away with how good they work, I find myself using them more than I ever thought I would, they live in my pocket every day now as part of my EDC.

 

[alarmguy]

Some one else said it best @dishdude
A good set of Bose QC 2 or QC Ultra earbuds will kill any noise. Truly amazing, I have the QC2, heck you dont even have to listen to music. You can just put them in your ear and leave the music off, your world will become silent, really amazing.

I assume according my my wife the Apple AirPods Pro are just as good but she likes the sound quality of the Bose better. I know when I talk to her with them on she has no clue I am talking to her, or she is pretending

There is one other brand but have no experience with and that is Sony 1000xm5 gets respectable reviews for what I understand. I do think the top dog right now are the QC2 and Ultra Ear buds.
I also have their over the ear headphones but not as practical and prefer the QC2 really cant overstate how good they are.

I can testify you will not hear a snore.

 

[Lubener]

Passenger on my flight was snoring very loudly for an hour and luckily they were a few rows behind me. It was an early bird flight that took off at 5:45 AM so maybe they didn’t drink any coffee before this A321neo flight to Texas. The flight attendant didn’t want to disturb snoring passenger.

What would you do if the person next to you was snoring very loudly and you didn’t know them ?
Do you gently bump them a few times with your elbow ?
Do you ignore them ?

The passenger woke up when the pilot activated the thrust reversers after a very smooth landing.


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Be glad the passenger was not air sick instead. For only one hour, I would leave the snorer alone, he's harmless that way..

 

[atikovi]

At least they weren't coughing, sneezing, or trying to talk to you.

 

[Dave Hess]

Take the puke bag, blow it up with air and pop it about 2 rows behind him.

I was thinking you would say place the bag over the person’s head. LOL

 

[GON]

It appears you were likely flying in first class. Maybe flying coach reduces the risk of a snoring passenger?

 

[spasm3]

Ignore it. You are traveling using public/mass transit. You just have to realize that snoring, babies crying , coughing etc. ,
( as Clark Griswold would say ) are all part of the experience.

 

[Kira]

It appears you were likely flying in first class. Maybe flying coach reduces the risk of a snoring passenger?

So much data needed.

 

[Sandstorm]

Nothing much you can do here I was stuck in a transatlantic flight from Los Angeles to Dubai once with an older dude farting right next to me for 16 hours. Such is life I guess

 

[Pew]

I'd take it as a challenge

 

[GON]

So much data needed.

If one can take a picture of the engine likely implies flying up front. One can get slightly more comfortable in first and fall asleep. Tougher to fall asleep in coach with the higher density of passengers.

 

[captainbeandip]

I'd ask the flight attendant for some whipped cream and a feather. I'd then put a generous glob of whipped cream into his hand, and then tickle his nose with a feather. Get's em every time, and then chances are that he'll be awake for the rest of the flight and won't bother anyone anymore.

You're welcome.