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Old Jun 25, 2014 | 2:17 pm
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Originally Posted by jorge18
My wife has this fear of flying in the smaller airplanes like the MD80. She gets motion sickness and in general is a terrible flyer.

My question, because I've never flown on a smaller airplane, is there any real difference between the MD80 and say, a 737-800?

Thanks!
The MD-80's are a lot more quiet in my experience. By the way, Mythbusters did find ginger to be effective against flight sickness. If she doesn't like small planes though, might be easier to book on a bigger one. Not that many MD-80's around.
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