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Originally Posted by heep223
Research some breathing techniques that you can use as a crutch if you do feel some anxiety coming in. Bring music and pump it, put your headphones in before you even get on the plane and keep them in the whole time. Bring some mindless iPad/iPhone games. Not sure how alert you have to be after you land but take a gravol or two to make yourself sleepy. If you can, get an aisle seat so you are free to get up and move around whenever you want.
These are all purely anecdotal.
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For music, you will have to take them off for the safety briefing. Since this is your first flight, you should probably listen. Since it is short, I'd recommend a window seat if you can, just so you have the option of seeing what is going on as the plane goes through the motions. I think it would be more reassuring than being in the middle not knowing what is going on as the plane shifts around. The flights are going to be so short you won't have a chance to get up and move around anyway. I wouldn't bother with gravol for something so brief, especially if you have to switch planes in Calgary.
Now I gotta ask, why are you afraid of flying if you have never done it? It sounds like you kinda worked yourself up to this with no evidence you will have a problem with it. Lots of people are afraid of heights and have no trouble with it. So maybe you should tell yourself to go in with an open mind, instead of one already made up that it is going to be horrible. Oh, and lots of people feel uncomfortable with flying or parts of it, so it isn't that abnormal. And it is OK to feel a bit uncomfortable, no need to let yourself turn that into panic. So just know that it is OK if you feel a bit uneasy, others are feeling it too. But as was mentioned, flying is super safe.