Flying anxiety

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Hay so we braved our first flight in over 25 years 11 days ago with our 6 kids to Sharm. Oldest is 17 (his second time flying) and youngest is 20 months. She was actually great on the flight. Slept for take off for over an hour and then played the rest of the time. I don’t know why but my anxiety for our flight home is giving me anxiety. We leave tomorrow and our flight is at 7:55pm. She’s adapted to Egypt hours the past few days in regards to naps and sleep. Any tips would be so appreciated 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

What is it you’re worried about? The airport? Being on the plane? If you can identify which part is your concern then you can think of ways to make difficulties easier.

beginning to end lol

It was fine on the way out. Is your son 17 yrs? 17 yrs is nearly and adult and can sort himself out and help with the younger ones. What ages are the kids? Evening flight. If you’re lucky they will do one quick food/drinks service and quick duty free ones and then dim the lights. Kids may sleep. Do you have electronics to keep them occupied if they don’t sleep? Don’t take too much hand luggage and expect grumpy kids when you land but you’ll be nearly home. With young kids you will be able to go through the the young family passport control line. How are you getting home from the airport?

I mean, you just have to get through it. It will probably be fine. But even if it isn't it'll be over before too long. You've got to get home, so you haven't got much choice about it.

What ages are the kids? We had some hideous flights with DCs when they were young (including long haul transatlantic ones), we had some that were ok. We got through them all.

Presumably if you've got older kids they can help out with the littler ones (carrying stuff, entertaining them). But even if they're grumpy teens and won't do that, then they won't need you to look after them.