What is it? Airkix is basically indoor skydiving, brilliant for those who would like to experience flight but without actually jumping out of a plane. It's also a cheaper alternative. Airkix have two centres in the UK, one in Milton Keynes and one in Manchester. I recently visited the Manchester Airkix and therefore that will be the focus of my review. Airkix is basically a vertical wind tunnel. Air is circulated through the tunnel and into the flight chamber. Manchester's flight chamber is bigger and more powerful than the one in Milton Keynes, reaching a maximum speed of 180mph. Flying at Airkix Manchester is apparently equivalent to skydiving from ...  Read the complete review

The flight was superb, can't fault the instructor either. He made the flight fun and enjoyable. My problem is the kids on the counter. Same as everywhere else nowadays and they just don't have a clue. Charged me £5 extra for something I already paid for last year when I booked this thing!!! Wouldn't even listen properly to my explanation, just charged me. Massive queue behind me so I paid it under protest. When I rang the branch next day they never answered the phone (they never do) so I rang the premium line. Guess what? They answered immediately and although they agreed with my explanantion insisted the girl was right to charge me as she knew no better!!! To make ...  Read the complete review

~~*~~*~~ Airkix ~~*~~*~~ I have two brothers for my sins; one gave me a spiral egg holder (as requested) for Christmas which I should actually receive next month; the other was much more creative - he purchased me an Airkix voucher and for this reason he shall receive a much better birthday present this year. ~~*~~ Flying without wings ~~*~~ The concept of Airkix is simple - parachuting without the plane/parachute/possible death. You know those wind tunnels that they test the aerodynamics of random things in - it's that but upright. The first people to think of this and use it for fake flying was the American military in 1964, it wasn't ...  Read the complete review

Woohoo! Today was my son's birthday and for a family birthday treat we took his best friend and all went to try out indoor skydiving at Airkix. What is it? ~~~~~~~ Well, it's basically skydiving without needing to a) jump out of a plane or b) land - the two scariest elements which have always put me off! It takes place in a vertical wind tunnel and is a great way to experience freefall in a safe environment. Where is it? ~~~~~~~~ There are two venues, Milton Keynes and Manchester - we went to the Manchester one, which is right near the Trafford Centre. Who's it for? ~~~~~~~~ Well, they say ages 4 - 104, as ...  Read the complete review

My mum got us a Virgin Experience for AirKix for Christmas as she like to get us doing different things and we all thought what a great pressie. Although the AirKix site was over 2hours away we thought what a great opportunity to have a weekend away. We were all very excited about doing the skyydive that i went onto their website http://www.airkix.com/ to find out more about it and what they do. Our tickets were for the Kix Start which is an introduction to sky diving which included a classroom talk, all you kit ( Jumpsuit, goggles and helmet) 2 1 minute flying sessions and a dvd of the class of all of our flights. This was great value as the DVD's were being ...  Read the complete review