Hi Y'all,
I decided to blog so I can share with all of you how I deal (or not...) with my fear of flights.
As you will see on my web page , I am an ex flight attendant who is suffering of fear of flying for the past 15 years (as a passenger ) I have found ways to cope. I do travel. I sometimes even manage to get off a flight with zero incidents and zero heart palpitations....but the bottom line is - I dont like flying. Point.
On the other hand, I will not NOT TRAVEL. My dream is a trip around the world and feeling like I do, well, it doesnt bring me any closer to my goal....But - I am COPING ( as you will read on my web page).
One of the problems I was not able to solve until now was traveling by charter flights.
I'm dying to tour Sicily and Malta.
Big caveat - It seems that at one point or another I will have to take a charter flight.
Yes, there are non charter flights to those destinations as well, but those are ridiculously expensive.
I will share the process I am going through, maybe you can see yourself in it....
I was told by the agent what the name of the charter airline is.
Decided to read a little about them on the net....
Ok, so first of all, the entire fleet is based on small airbus planes...150 people tops. I am sorry, I try to avoid Airbus aircrafts, as much as I can. I dont feel safe flying them. I should check statistics, but they seem to drop more from the skies...
To add insult to misery, the details on the flight state that the hours of the flight's departure and return are "approximated"....I already dont like that... I gave them a call to understand better what that means (range of change on hours) and I was told a charter flight can change their flight hours anywhere between morning to night..
So , for a person like me, this is bad news, cause I am anxious as it is...I dont want to have to prolong the anxiety with uncertainty.
I am also not sure about the pilots and the level of aircraft maintenance.
This all spells - GREATER PANIC on the flight...
SO I guess, I will not fly charter flights for now. The prices are excellent, actually almost 1/3 the official prices of regular flights, but is money really worth the psychological price on this flight?...I dont think so...
To sum up - I need to deal with this issue, or I wont be able to get where it is I want to go...
As a fellow sufferer - Would you fly a charter flight?
Talk to you soon :-)
Karen
I decided to blog so I can share with all of you how I deal (or not...) with my fear of flights.
As you will see on my web page , I am an ex flight attendant who is suffering of fear of flying for the past 15 years (as a passenger ) I have found ways to cope. I do travel. I sometimes even manage to get off a flight with zero incidents and zero heart palpitations....but the bottom line is - I dont like flying. Point.
On the other hand, I will not NOT TRAVEL. My dream is a trip around the world and feeling like I do, well, it doesnt bring me any closer to my goal....But - I am COPING ( as you will read on my web page).
One of the problems I was not able to solve until now was traveling by charter flights.
I'm dying to tour Sicily and Malta.
Big caveat - It seems that at one point or another I will have to take a charter flight.
Yes, there are non charter flights to those destinations as well, but those are ridiculously expensive.
I will share the process I am going through, maybe you can see yourself in it....
I was told by the agent what the name of the charter airline is.
Decided to read a little about them on the net....
Ok, so first of all, the entire fleet is based on small airbus planes...150 people tops. I am sorry, I try to avoid Airbus aircrafts, as much as I can. I dont feel safe flying them. I should check statistics, but they seem to drop more from the skies...
To add insult to misery, the details on the flight state that the hours of the flight's departure and return are "approximated"....I already dont like that... I gave them a call to understand better what that means (range of change on hours) and I was told a charter flight can change their flight hours anywhere between morning to night..
So , for a person like me, this is bad news, cause I am anxious as it is...I dont want to have to prolong the anxiety with uncertainty.
I am also not sure about the pilots and the level of aircraft maintenance.
This all spells - GREATER PANIC on the flight...
SO I guess, I will not fly charter flights for now. The prices are excellent, actually almost 1/3 the official prices of regular flights, but is money really worth the psychological price on this flight?...I dont think so...
To sum up - I need to deal with this issue, or I wont be able to get where it is I want to go...
As a fellow sufferer - Would you fly a charter flight?
Talk to you soon :-)
Karen
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