I enjoy flying. It’s just washing my cape afterwards that’s the bummer.

Getting to the airport can sometimes be more stressful than the flight . The attitude of airport staff and flight crews is critical to the level of enjoyment or otherwise. Even bad situations if managed in a friendly sympathetic manner can be a positive experience. Budget airlines who incentivise staff to fine passengers are by far the biggest culprits in making a stressful trip into a bit of hell.

I hate the short hall cattle pen flights like Ryanair Dublin to Liverpool which I made twice a week for two years. I do enjoy going to America on a large airline though. The games, videos etc. keep me occupied throughout.

Love it, but i refuse to recognise gravity in any way shape or form.

I hate flying. Not so much the actual flying itself, but the airport experience in general leaves a lot to be desired. Hate the security (i accept that it is necessary though)…hate the over priced, poor quality food and junk they sell….hate being trapped inside for hours in most airports (at least there is a smoking area in Dublins terminal 1)

These are the reasons why I prefer an overnight ferry journey and an 8 hour drive to get to where I go on holiday in France. Love being able to walk around the boat and relax. Your holiday starts when you get on the boat, rather than when you arrive at your destination if travelling by air.

I’d enjoy it except for the people who shouldn’t be allowed fly. You know who you are: holding up the entire plane from boarding while you stow your luggage or when leaving the plane decide to put all the clothes that they took off during the flight back on, while standing in the aisle and again holding every one up. These are just two examples of many!!

I tend to have a bit of a moan about it. The checking in, the queues, the charges, the small seats, boredom on long haul flights etc. But I actually still enjoy it. I think I just fall into conversations where you moan about flying. I actually like the flights. It’s sitting around Heathrow in the f**king tiny Wetherspoons for hours waiting on a connection that bothers me the most. Since I moved to Dublin though, even connections aren’t as bad, as I’m not waiting on a flight to Cork.

I was 18 when I first boarded a plane and that was an amazing experience for me. I couldn’t believe how quick we got off the ground. The power of the engines was incredible and I still sometimes get a rush at the power taking off.

Nowadays my enjoyment is more down to the experience on a particular airline. I took a transatlantic on Air Canada last year on a plane with so dated an interior that they were still projecting movies onto a wall. Compare that with flying Virgin Atlantic about 10 years ago and getting my own personal SNES built into the entertainment system.

All that aside though, nothing compares to the train. Got trains going on my summer holidays every year as a kid and I still feel that excitement standing on the platform listening to the engines. To this day, passing through the tunnel to Kent Station still brings a smile to my face from time to time

Love the flying part but not the waiting around at the airports!

No problem with the whole tin can in the air thing. I’m an engineer so this bit I don’t worry about, it’s the completely uncomfortable seating and proximity to a stranger that gets me. I wish we had an undersea tunnel to go trans-atlantic :(

I occasionally get this sudden realisation that I’m in a big metal tube held up by physics.

I mean, have you met any physicists?

Used to love it, but the airport experience has become so ugly and unfriendly that I now take ferries when possible.

I really don’t mind flying but I always get clammy palms before boarding. When my brain is telling my body you’re about to ascend to 30000 feet in a tin can it reacts in that fashion. The worst thing about flying is the lack of space and difficulty in sleeping (especially on long haul).

Love it , love traveling. Except in America. They force you to either step into an X Ray machine or be molested by their drooling pervert TSA staff. Apart from that , love flying :)

I used to enjoy it and flew many long-haul flights since I was a child but for some stupid reasons, I am beginning to get scared each time turbulences or unusual sounds or lights strike the plane… My brain for some reason will tend to yiel towards the likelihood of a crash whereas this is highly unlilely…

I love flying and the whole airport experience but I am nervous. I don’t believe in god but do pray when their is turbulence and I always sit at the back of the plane because it’s safer! I have yet to hear of a plane reversing into a mountain.

I love it!! I find it such a thrill and have done since I was a nipper!!

Do the airport security boffins realise that once you’ve got through the scanner and surrendered your tiny blunt nail file you can buy a heavy bottle of scotch that you could use to lay out the cabin crew of your choosing?

I fly home a lot for work and home for holidays because I live abroad so it doesn’t bother me at this stage. I agree with Thomas Cooke though it all depends on the staff/airline. I do loathe Ryanair flights though I’ll still pay €50 as opposed to €150-200 to get home off-season, after all I only have to put up with them for 2 hours.

Better then walking.

Flying means holidays and no rain. All good one way.

If anyone here is worried about flying you should check out flyfearless.com they’ve brilliant courses around Ireland #justsaying

I fly at least 4 times a week and sometimes more on flights ranging from 4 hours to up to 16 hours (hello from Hong Kong BTW). I can absolutely verify without a doubt that no matter how fancy the interior and how cool the crew are, I know positively despise air travel!!!!!
But then again, it’s my job and I need to promote it so keep flying people, iv a mortgage to pay! Lol

I love to fly, it’s great. Taking off is the best part. Flew on a Boeing 747 in March, it’s amazing how something that huge can get off the ground and stay in the air for 11 hours.

There’s nothing enjoyable about flying Ryanair, but it’s a necessary evil when you live in Dublin and are in a relationship with someone who lives in London.

Hell yeah..i love it..i freakin love it

The take-off and landing are my favourite parts. But I need a handful of Valium to get me through the Security and all the rest of the ‘Airport Experience’, as some-one has already called it. And turbulence! Once the turbulence starts, I fall asleep. Seriously, I feel like a baby being rocked in a cradle. And I have just taken the Valium as I will leave for an airport in a few hours. The butterflies in the tummy are unreal.

scares the shite out of me but needs to be done!

just bought 18 Ativan tablets to knock me out so I dont know Im flying! #Couldn’tBeMoreScaredOfFlying!

Enjoy flying as long as it’s not with ryanair

Necessary evil, but why the boring legalized kidnapping for hours before a flight to pay for H2O, and stale sarnied. Takes 4 hours to get to LDN. Used to be hour half.

I don’t mind it, companies like Ryanair has taken the glamour out of flying but also dropped the prices. if we had to travel by bus all over Europe and further we wouldn’t be long complaining about it.

Travel 50-100K miles between the USA and Ireland a year. It really buts a strain on you but I enjoy it, exit row seats the occasional upgrade and airport lounge access really does matter when your flying that much, crossing time zones.

Not on ryanair, makes me feel like beeing on a rush hour train. Love long haul flights, very exciting

Love flying except dropping suddenly or cross wind landings, I feckin hate that!

A lot of it depends who you’re flying with and what plane you’re on. A 323 with Ryanair is always going to be miserable in comparison with a virgin 474! The best (and scariest) flight I’ve ever been on was a 20 seater propeller plane

I don’t mind flying its the airport thing I hate, im going on holidays with my family do I look like im going to mg. hun

I’ve never flown in my live. I’ve been on different planes and airlines now for over 40 years and they’ve always done the flying for me, some good and some not so good. As for airports, there just terminals as you would expect, like a bus station though more security.

Hi all, I saw a few people here mention they aren’t fond of the actual physical experience of flying and the concerns that brings with it.
I thought I might point you to an article one of reporters, Christina Finn, wrote last month when she attended a fear of flying workshop with a friend who has a severe phobia about flying.
It’s quite interesting – and hopefully it might have a tip or two in there that might help steady the nerves!
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-fear-of-flying-wont-stop-me-i-am-getting-on-that-flight/
Happy holidays (if you’re lucky enough to be heading off!),
Susan, Editor, TheJournal.ie

I hate it. Nothing to do with being cut off feom emails etc but I hate the feeling of being locked in and the safety demonstration at the start of the flight dies not help !!!!.

And by the way can the Airlines get rid of the whistle that comes with safety equipment. If a plane came down in the middle of the ocean and I managed to survive the only ones it would attract is Sharks….. what a way to go !!!!!

The weather in this country doesn’t even entice it’s own people to stay in this country never mind Tourist’s from abroad. Also we are robbed here in hotel prices and food prices. No need for these crazy prices at all. The Hotels are only doing them selves out of customers at de end of de day. The minute something is on the prices are doubled in prices so i dont hve pity on them at all

i don’t mind , apart from taking off and landing I like been up there .lol

I have avoided flying for years….. I’m flying for the first time next month. I am consumed with terror and it’s on my mind all the time lol.
Will probably OD on valium on the day methinks>

I’d be happier with thisnMuch space!nnhttp://www.terminalu.com/air-travel-features/video-new-concept-to-bring-futuristic-capsule-seats-onto-planes/26904/

I do London-Sydney return 3 times each year and the 13hrs London-Hong Kong leg is a real killer. However, I manage to balance this discomfort with the joy of downing a couple of James Squire’s Chancers in the ‘Hero of Waterloo’.

Love the actual flying; hate all the airport crap at either end…..

Can’t remember. Flying is for the super rich!

To me flying is like taking the bus. Nothing special. I still love flying tho ya can’t beat it for speed. Still hate the safety briefing tho. A waste of 5 mins. We’ve all seen and heard it plenty of times