Are you afraid to fly on an airplane?

I have flown - in aeroplanes or just 'planes as called here, not "airplanes" - only a few times and with one exception only within the country, those flights taking only about an hour. The exception was a holiday in Greece, about a 4-hour flight. Though one of the national flights was a day-trip to the Scilly Isles, by helicopter!

I don't know if a hovercraft counts. One holiday in France, with friends, used the hovercraft ferries that plied between SE England and NE France.


[i]I liked the flying[/i].

It was the [i]airports[/i], not the aircraft, that made me nervous.


Prior to those events I knew airports only from short scenes in films and News reports. They indicated them to be vast, bewildering mazes of interminable corridors inhabited by expensively-dressed people rushing along them with grim expressions on their faces, and all knowing exactly where to go by which route, when. No place for the nervous, casually-dressed, occasional visitor who is not an Important Person In The City, not an MP, not even a mere "celebrity"; no place to be puzzled, lost or late.

Then I used them and found..... they are indeed like that!

Luckily I was never alone, so could let my companions lead.