Yes but not for a few years now especially lately...
Got all my long distance travelling in during the late 90s and early 00s. Don't think I'll be bothering with planes for a while now...
If any travel it will probably be UK and mainland Europe holidays. Or long distance where we can get there by land travel.
Sympathise. My flying phobia first surfaced around 10 years ago, but I thought it was due to over-exposure as a kid, when owing to my father’s job I would travel from Tunisia to Bali and live all over the globe for 7-8 months at a time with all the chaos and incidents that entails.
But it has only been getting worse since then, and when I was landing in Agadir with 0 visibility in thick white fog (must have been 2016), screeching sounds from all directions and injury-inducing turbulence, I realised that was definitely it.
Haven’t really got over it, that entire holiday I was lying on the beach catatonic dreading the flight back (“killjoy” doesn’t begin to cover it). Have been to Israel since out of the long-distance ones but have been avoiding air travel almost completely.
Speaking of why we’re here, have been needing to self-medicate with films because alcohol and coffee and tranquillisers get old. The last 10+ times I had to fly, I would put on a movie before everyone finished getting on the plane. Interestingly, my demeanour must have given away that it was bad because no one ever challenged me/tried to make me pause for takeoff.
My father can not only pilot but more or less build a variety of planes should life demand it, and he’s done his best to rationalise away to me how safe it all is, but I think that just made it worse. Now I just avoid getting out of London unless it’s a Eurostar to Paris, so in that sense the pandemic hasn’t made the slightest difference.
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. I use to take cruises too, as dollar per dollar it was the cheapest way to travel. I might need to do that again, though covid and pandemic procedures will decide that.
