Like others, I often get airsick on early season flights around the
airport. I don't get sick later in the season and have never been
sick on a cross country flight.

Obviously, there is a powerful psychological component to
airsickness. Why else would so many of us successfully
acclimate to it, and why else would we not get sick on
cross country flights, where we know we don't have the
option of landing?

I once read, can't remember where, that the Royal
Air Force did a study of counseling as a way to combat it,
and apparently it worked!

Mostly I now just fly and don't worry about it and don't get
sick, but when I experimented with drugs, I had good success
with meclizine, a cheap, over the counter remedy. It tended
to make me sleepy so I tried taking it the night before and
getting a good night's sleep. The drug is supposed to work
for 24 hours, so this seemed to work for me.

Alan