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  "If you have travelled the tilt train in Australia, that suggests that you have travelled between the U.S. and Australia more than once, and as a somewhat frequent trans-Pacific traveller, you have probably endured everything from high-density coach seats for a 14-18 hour flight to perhaps business class on the long-distance plane owing to if you fly long enough the airline sometimes puts you there owing to various circumstances? Do you face the same problem in airline trans-Pacific Business Class of a restless flight owing to less-than-model fellow passengers?  Or do the airlines have a better way of handling that?  Or maybe the airline cabin is a noisier environment (at cruise altitude, you really don't hear the jet engines, but you hear the constant rush of air over the outside of the cabin) -- maybe that masks the noise of snoring passengers?" I lived in Australia from 1999 to 2004.  I have made 22 trips between the U.S. and Australia as well as one trip between Australia and the UK.  On four of the trips I flew business class; otherwise, I toughed it out in economy class. Although my company paid for business class when flying overseas, I was so shocked at the price difference that I, as well as several other members of our company, opted for economy. We were shareholders. We did not think that it made a lot of sense to take money away from ourselves.   I was only bothered by fellow airborne passenger(s) on one occasion.  Two young women on a flight from Melbourne to LAX spent the better part of the flight talking in a very loud voice.  In fact, the flight attendant finally asked them to tone it down.  Otherwise, most of my flights were quite comfortable.  One factor that makes air travel more enjoyable than train travel is cell phones are not permitted to be used on airplanes whilst in flight.   The trick in flying coach on long distance flights is to schedule your trip during an off period. For example, between the U.S. and Australia, the best time to go is Tuesday through Thursday.  Moreover, choose an aisle seat between rows 55 and 65 on the inside block of seats on the 747-400, which is the airplane used primarily between the U.S. and Australia.  If you get lucky, which I did most of the time, there will be no one beside you.  I travel frequently on planes and trains.  I have encountered disturbing passengers on each mode.  Last October I flew from Austin to Tampa.  A seriously hung over college student sat next to me.  A half hour into the flight he got so sick that the cabin attendants had to ask if there was a doctor on board to attend to him.  A doctor was on the flight and was able to help him.  Mercifully, the doctor got to him with some medicine before he threw up. On a recent Amtrak trip from Washington to Baltimore a passenger behind me literally shouted into a cell phone most of the trip.  Ironically, I had booked business class hoping that I could avoid this kind of behavior. And a couple of years ago, whilst taking the train from Denver to San Francisco in a sleeper, I was roused from my sleep by a fellow passenger who was shouting into a cell phone in the middle of the night. Although I was in a roomette, it seemed like the guy was standing outside of the door to my compartment. No matter how one travels in commercial transport, he runs the risk of encountering a fellow passenger who does not care how his or her behavior impacts their fellow passengers.
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