Japan's virtual reality airline offers the full experience of a flight without going anywhere

[DonPeffers]

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2018/02/23/first-airlines-japanese-virtual-reality/

One way for tourists to certainly avoid terrorists.

[SootySport]

Well, the food looks more appetising than the normal in flight meals.  

    Will British tourists still moan when they go abroad?    "It's not like home!"   is the usual rant.

[DonPeffers]

Low carbon footprint anyway.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

If they could invent getting there without the flying experience I'd be first in the queue! Went to my son's wedding in New South Wales last December - that's an experience to be avoided. The flight, not the wedding, obviously! Why anyone would want to simulate spending hours and hours on a 'plane without the consolation or arriving, I really cannot fathom. 

[DonPeffers]

I know what you mean MOTCO about long haul flights and we could really do with some faster planes.

The VR flight is on  http://firstairlines.jp/

I think  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/japan/tokyo/articles/worlds-first-virtual-reality-airline-vr-technology/  explains it better regarding flight time compression and £40 first class 'flight'.

110 minute experience if I've read it correctly.

The film 'Total Recall' beckons.