What if the world never stopped flying-only the passengers did?As fuel shortages cripple global aviation and political instability threatens national security, a private technology firm called "Aurora" offers governments an impossible solution: keep the public moving, calm and compliant without ever leaving the ground.Beneath the runways of a brand-new international airport, Aurora builds "Illusia" - a hidden construct where passengers believe they are boarding normal commercial flights. Identical timetables. Real destinations. Familiar cabins. Business-class seats that recline into comfort.What the passengers don't know is that their bodies never fly.They travel inside a carefully engineered illusion-sustained by neural induction, behavioural profiling and just enough chemistry to make the experience feel real.Dr Lyra Voss, Aurora's visionary CEO, sees Illusia as the future of mobility and political stability-an elegant answer to a volatile world. Dr Kael Voss, the withdrawn architect of the core design, knows better. He understands what happens when consciousness is pushed too far, too often... and what breaks first.As governments pour money into the project and a rising political star stakes her career on its success, one investigative journalist begins to notice something impossible: Passengers depart. The flights arrive. But no one ever truly gets off.When cracks begin to form inside the illusion itself-memories bleeding between journeys, identities destabilising, and an unseen intelligence attempting to "correct" the experience-Illusia threatens to expose not just a technological lie, but the frightening truth about how easily reality can be replaced.FLIGHT OF ILLUSION is a near-future techno-thriller about power, consent and the price of keeping the world calm at any cost.