Afraid of flying? One man's cure: flying non-stop for a month

Some fight it with sleeping pills. Others just opt to stay home. But Mark Malkoff is choosing to confront his fear of flying head-on--by flying for a month straight.

Mark started his journey yesterday, traveling from La Guardia to Atlanta to San Francisco back to Atlanta. No rest for the weary; he'll continually be on a plane for the next month, only getting off to change to a different plane at an airport.

Forget a fear of flying, I can think of a dozen things about living on a plane that would surely scare me more.

Mark's flying AirTran the whole way. Considering he's averaging five or six flights per day for a month, it makes you wonder whether he has an AirTran sponsorship. Two reasons: the clearance to stay on a plane when a cleaning crew is doing its thing, and the cost. I mean, their tickets may be cheaper than those of other airlines, but they're not exactly cheap enough to fly nonstop for a month.

Not a stranger to stunt-pulling, Mark is a comedian/writer/filmmaker who's already known for living in an Ikea store for a week and consecutively visiting all of the Starbucks in Manhattan (all 171 of 'em). You can follow his journeys through videos and Tweets he's posting online.



[Thanks, NYPost.com]

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