This year I invested in some Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-cancelling bluetooth headphones.
They have totally transformed airports/planes/trains/buses for me.
https://www.whathifi.com/sony/wh-1000xm3/review
Not unrelated: https://twitter.com/philhawksworth/status/1129303323889340416
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