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With summer holiday season upon us, you probably have a flight coming up, which means it’s almost time for the dreaded ear popping. ‘Airplane ear’ is the most horrible feeling, but an audiologist has shared five simple tips to prevent it, and make flying so much more enjoyable. Why do your ears pop on planes?Audiologist Ashish Shah explains that ear popping, also known as Ear Barotrauma, occurs due to an imbalance between the air pressure inside the middle ear and the air pressure outside of it. It most commonly occurs during takeoff and landing, and sometimes during air turbulence, due to the…