More than 50,000 people have booked a flight to nowhere tickets worth hundreds

More than 50,000 people have paid for a flight to nowhere.

It may sound unusual, but this flight – which starts Heathrow And about 40 minutes later – is specially designed to help people with a fear of flying.

The flight, which is managed by British airwaysis part of ‘flying with confidence’ of the airline.

Ba says that his’ life -changing, one -day course gives you the knowledge and techniques that are needed to ‘overcome a fear for’.

In one Tap Video, travel experts at the @thepointsguyExplain that the course uses the experience of pilots and psychologists to help participants overcome their phobia.

They reveal that the course starts at a hotel conference space of the airport with a presentation by senior British Airways Piloten.

The Pointsman says that the pilots ‘explain how safely fly aircraft, how pilots they operate and the rigorous selection and regular training pilots must undertake to go to the air’.

Participants will then be accompanied by a clinical psychologist who will ‘explain how fears to fly develop and can be managed’.

It may sound unusual, but a flight – that takes off from Heathrow and finds out there about 40 minutes later – is specially designed to help people with a fear of flying

There will then be a ‘guided meditation’ and ‘relaxation exercise’ to ‘calm down course in a deep calmness’.

Trained staff will then guide course members through security and help them help a special British Airways Charter Flight ‘, explains the points.

During the flight, experts will explain what every noise and ‘bump’ is to help participants stay calm.

Ba says: ‘During the flight, an extra pilot on the cockpit gives a current commentary in which all different phases of the flight are explained and exactly what happens.

“This aspect of the course has proved very reassuring and valuable and people help people overcome their flying fear.”

Does it work?

According to British Airways, more than 50,000 people have followed the course in the last 30 years and has a success rate of 98 percent.

The primary course of the airline costs £ 399 and passengers take a short flight from Heathrow at the end of the day.

On the left: the points that man says the pilots ‘explain how safely fly aircraft, how pilots are operating and the rigorous selection and regular training pilots have to commit themselves to go to the air’. Right: on the flight, experts will explain what every noise and ‘bump’ is to help attendees stay calm

The premium course costs £ 1,899 and includes two flights on the domestic services of British Airways.

BA explains: ‘Normally the’ Turnaround ‘time on the ground at the destination is less than an hour, with a chance for a cockpit visit. ‘

Who is the course for?

Ba says that the course will help people with a fear of flying, whether it is due to a lack of control, claustrophobia, a fear of heights or falling.