Staycation: The $1 'Flight to Nowhere' Is Taking Kids on the Trip of a Lifetime David McNair - TakePart
go to original October 24, 2015

Staycation: The $1 Flight to Nowhere (Barcroft TV)

A flight to nowhere on the outskirts of New Dehli, India, is bringing children an experience they might not otherwise have: a chance to feel what it’s like to travel on an airplane.

The experience comes courtesy of 58-year-old Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired aircraft engineer who in 2003 paid $10,000 for an old, decommissioned Airbus A300 so he could host simulated flight departures, charging as much as $1 or as little as nothing for the experience. Since then, his flights to nowhere have become very popular, especially among groups of schoolchildren.

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