The Twelve South AirFly Pro 2 Is a Must-Carry Travel Accessory

If you travel with noise-canceling headphones, the Twelve South AirFly Pro 2 is the kind of thing that quickly stops feeling optional.

The biggest reason is simple. It lets you use seatback entertainment with your wireless headphones instead of falling back to bad airline earbuds or dealing with a wired backup pair you do not really want to carry. That alone is enough to make this an easy must-carry for flights.

The other reason it stands out is shared listening. The AirFly Pro 2 can pair with two sets of headphones, which makes it especially useful when you are traveling with a partner and want to watch something together from a laptop or tablet without messing around with splitters, wires, or one person listening badly through a speaker.

That is what makes this feel better than a niche airplane gadget. It solves the obvious in-flight problem, but it also ends up being useful for other travel situations too. Twelve South also positions it for gym equipment and other headphone-jack setups, which makes sense, but the seatback-screen use case is still the one that matters most.

The 25+ hour battery life helps too. This is not the kind of accessory you want to babysit mid-trip, and USB-C charging makes it much easier to keep in the same travel setup as the rest of your gear.

If you already travel with wireless headphones, this is one of the easiest accessories to justify. It is tiny, fixes a real annoyance, and gets even better if you ever want two people listening at once.