A 10-12 hour flight (or two) is a great chance to do something that wouldn&#x27;t fit easily into a normal day. You could read Moby-Dick while listening to the Messiah, or something. Bach Cantantas are good, if you like that sort of thing, because there&#x27;s a couple of hundred of them.<p>I tend to pack a readable novel (Gaiman, Stephenson, Pratchett or whatever), and it&#x27;s amazing how fast the time goes. Start reading when you leave for the airport, read it while in queues etc. I read the Harry Potter series that way.<p>Those of us who still have laptops with proper email clients can also use long flights to dispose of not-so-urgent emails, the only problem being that a lot of people will reply ;-)