Oh by the time she's through with Uni, and a few years in the Air force, NASA 'll be off to Mars or something.

Tell her to have her kids before sitting in a sardine can for six months each way enduring the radiation, then!

Search 'fear of flying' on amazon and you'll get a couple of audiobooks come up that involve hypnotherapy-probably alot more cost effective!-and you can take on flight with you. Take everything you can to make your flight more comfy-relaxing essential oil, eye mask, ear plugs, a pashmina that scented with a fave smell, Bach's Rescue Remedy (from Boots-spray on tongue when stressed) and turn up expecting your flight to be a smooth & comfortable one-dont expect the worse or you'll work yourself up. Finally a glass of fizz and keep thinking of your new exciting life!! All the best

She'll probably do the sensible thing and not have any.

comfy? relaxing? smooth? comfortable? what do I do with the kids?

Leave them in cattle class and make sure you get upgraded.

What a pragmatic lady!

Wish they had air-nannies! Someone who would entertain them, walk them up and down the aisle every 10 seconds, take them to the toilet for the 50th time, open every carton/foil top/packet on their meal tray only for them to turn their nose up in disgust, let them lie full out all over you with a foot in your face, change the channel on the entertainment system for the 50th time in 5 minutes, calm them down when you realise you've left their favourite comforter back in the hotel/car/train .................

Galba

That sounds rather like our flight with Korean Air actually. Our baby was hardly with us.

Luckily they didn't think it was a puppy....

Maybe they did?

Hi, I'm absolutely petrified of flying, even though i have flown many times on short and long haul flights it never seems to get any better.

I have never flown with my kids before and they have no idea that i hate flying. I have tried to keep it from them as i don't want them to end up the same as me, so i've got my Diazapam ready for when we fly out in August and will just have to put on a brave face

Absolutely dreading it!!!!

Good luck to everyone else who feels the same as i do.

Nicky

A friend of mine, nervous about flying, took a Mogodon tablet at the start of his flight in the US through to Aus. Little did he realise that he'd have to get off and swap planes at LAX.
On arrival at LAX, it was thought that he'd had a stroke, because the only thing he could move were his eyelids.
Through a 'rapid blinking' technique he managed to explain he'd taken something and they found the drug packet in his bag.
He was strapped to a wheelie trolley and in Hanibal Lechter stylee, was rolled, drooling and blinking, off the plane whilst the rather irate passengers looked on.
Several hours later, he was allowed to board another flight when he'd recovered his feeling, and was presented with a bill for a couple of thousand US dollars to cover the medics and ambulance.

So be careful with those drugs.

Ipom

If that's true (I can be extremely gulible) that's hilarious!I could just imagine the scenario!

carmel

Finally I feel like I belong.

I hate hate hate flying. I nearly didnt get on the return flight from oz last time we were there. It was only OH telling me if I stayed I would get deported by air anyway that I went.

I just feel in a constant state of sheer terror for the whole journey. When we arrived in Sydney last time I actually cried with relief

Not looking forward to the fact that this time next week I will be up in the air.