AlpineFlyFit - Earplugs for Pressure Relief & Preventing Ear Pain While Flying - Airplane Travel Essentials - Comfortable Reusable Hypoallergenic Earplugs with Ultra Soft Filter

I’ve written a similar “glowy” review for Earplanes, but Alpine are even better for me! The rest of this is super long, detailing my contrasting experience with each. Lots of you won’t care, be warned, and don’t be mad at me if you choose to read it all 😂 Bottom line: both work. Alpines are better.Context: I’m pretty well-traveled within the US, but only moderately so via air travel since I drive within 12 hours or so. I probably fly somewhere every 1-2 years. About a decade ago, when I began flying more frequently, I realized I was having excruciating ear pain. My left ear is always worse. Is my pain tolerance the highest out there? Unlikely. Nonetheless, there were a few flights where the pain was so bad, I thought my eardrum burst. Wiped my ear to check for blood. Crying while sitting next to a poor stranger. The pain would eventually reduce but hearing loss would last for over a week.I LOVE traveling, so I scoured the internet and discovered Earplanes first. I used them for a few years, including a trip from Boston to San Francisco to Hawaii and back - a vacation literal years in the making. They reduced my pain and hearing loss by probably 85%. I was SO happy, I remember crying from joy because the getaway we needed wouldn’t be marred by so much discomfort.Unfortunately Earplanes were single use only and very uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time. Their instructions recommended leaving them in for entire flights, but I couldn’t tolerate them for 6 hours at a time. This meant breaking that seal and rendered them less effective when I put them back in a solid hour before landing. They were painful to me, but much better than nothing!!!On a recent Boston to Phoenix trip, I was restocking my Earplanes supply and tried out this brand as well. They’re it for me. Game changer. Super comfortable. So soft. Easy to take out and put back in, and made to do so. (That’s my husbands favorite part so he doesn’t look as controlling when ordering for me from flight attendants because I can’t hear ANYTHING with Earplanes. He uses to get suspicious looks 😂).These did a more effective job of balancing pressure for pain and hearing loss reduction for me. And they’re reusable!!! Huge money saver and a perk for someone kind of crunchy, like myself. They’re going to live in my airplane kit, and I may legitimately buy a backup.All of this said, I did purchase the child size Earplanes to try (perhaps the others are too large and less effective for me). I didn’t even try them, and not sure I will because the price to pay for a product not working well for me is pretty high.In contrast, Alpines completely eliminated my ear pain, and I only experienced hearing loss for maybe 30 minutes before they popped. No meds. Can you tell they’re there? Yeah. You’re wearing earplugs. But they didn’t hurt me.I would HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend these to anyone who had bad ear pain while flying. Whether for work when you need to be in control of your body, or for play when you’re just trying to have a relaxing getaway!! Life’s too short and these are too affordable to just “deal” with that level of debilitating discomfort.

Works great! During landing, the pressure effects my ears to the point of sever pain. With these earplugs, I felt nothing!!! They worked so well I bought a pair for my mom and sister and they enjoyed wearing them on the plane as well. I love the little case they come with, its very handy.

Bought these for my boyfriend who could not stand his ears popping on our last flight and these worked amazing for him. He couldn’t even feel them when they were in. They also come with a cute case! They worked well, he had very little pressure in his ears. And then he accidentally threw them out when we landed. So next flight I’ll have to buy a new pair lol

Worked great. Confirmed with my ENT and he said these also work. Flew with a little head cold and no ear pain.

It works! Just flew to Florida (3/10/2025) and back and it worked.The trip to Florida my ears barely plugged up but was easy to yawn and pop them.The trip back home, similar but did have to pop them a couple more times.Sat next to a person on the flight who had the same ones. He noticed mine and commentted how he couldn't fly without them.I remove mine after take off when the plane levels off and back in before decent. Again it's working fabulous..without them I had unbearable pain (I used to never have this issue until a year ago).Comes with a simple caring case and a tool to take out the ear plugs (I did not need the tool) and you can hear well enough when the flight attendant speaks (very clear).

I sometimes get excruciating pain in my ears when I fly--particularly upon decent. I've used EarPlanes' EP2. I find the FlyFit more comfortable in my ears than the EP2. But the EP2 plugs are easier to get out. The tab on the FlyFit it too hard to grab. I just took 4 flights with the Fly fit, and, after one of the flight, I actually bought a pair of tweezers to help get one of the ear plugs out of my ear. Thankfully, I was eventually able to manipulate it to the point where I could pull it out and didn't need the tweezers.If Alpine fixes the design to make it easier to pull out, I would probably give 5 stars instead of 3.Bottom line. I'll probably use these again given that they're more comfortable in my ears, but I'm also going to bring a pair of tweezers just in case.

Oh my gosh this is the best purchase I have ever made!!! These completely changed the game for me flying wise. In the past I have had extreme ear pain and discomfort flying that has lasted LONG after the flight has ended and this completely eradicated that. I have worn them on short hour long flights as well as transatlantic flights and it worked great.They are super simple to use and I just put them in before we take off and pop my over ear headphones on top of them. I literally cannot hear anything outside of the music playing in my headphones with them in which can be a pro or con depending on what you are looking for. I make sure to chew gum during take off and landing even with the earplugs and I don't take the earplugs out during the flight even though I think you technically can. I have relatively small ear canals and they stay in great but if you would say you have larger ones I would be a bit more hesitant. The case for them is very very small and I feel like a am always searching for it so be carful if you lose things easily.I forgot these once before a flight and bought the crappy airpot version and it didn't work nearly a well and were kind of painful to wear (potentially because they were significantly larger I a should have bought the kids size). .Final thoughts, I would purchase these a million times over the work so well for me and I will never ever fly without them.