It can be quite annoying having to wait in an airport for connecting flights. You’re without enough time to actually go anywhere, but too much time just to sit still. Especially if the airport you are in has not even got any decent shops to go looking in, or somewhere nice to sit and have a snack.
However, there is something that you can do to alleviate some of the boredom. It’s important to make the time go a little bit faster. Or, at least be a little more enjoyable for you. Let’s have a look at some quick ways you can pass time between connecting flights.
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Catch up on social media
When you find that you have time to sit and basically do nothing, then it is an ideal time to catch up with the local news from your neighbourhood and what is going on in your friends and family’s lives.
It can also provide you with a conversation to have regardless of whether you are travelling alone or with others. Obviously, that is not to say draw in total strangers into topics about your friends and family’s private lives. But, if you are travelling with others, you can make comments to them. If you are travelling alone, there is indeed nothing stopping you from leaving comments on your friends or family’s feed to engage in conversation with them.
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Playing online games
You may feel that you have actually exhausted your social media patience for the day and that you would like to engage your mind in other things. Well, in this case, there are plenty of online games that will indeed help you pass the time until you are called for your flight.
You may find that due to having to keep half an ear on the announcements that you would do better to play the short games rather than get yourself so immersed in your long game that you miss the call for your flight. This is ok, there are loads of short games that can be downloaded from the internet, or you may feel that you would like to go visit certain gaming sites such as casino sites. If this is where your mind is taking you, you may benefit from reading a no deposit casino guide just so that you are aware of the different terminology that you could be faced with.
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People watching
If you have exhausted your gaming options and you have had enough of social media, then there is always the fine art of people watching. Of course, you do not want to stare and cause offence to anyone, but it can be quite a relaxing pastime or an amusing one depending on what is going on around you.
In fact, you have probably seen many people in your time conducting the fine art of people watching, so you may be able to pull it off discreetly. Those people that tend to frequent the local park benches, for instance, are generally people watching and gaining their happiness from those around them.
