A Flying Fear reader wrote this short story and emailed it to me to share with other readers;
A teenage girl of about 15, Kirsten, was travelling to her hometown in Sweden from her boarding school in America to see her family. She had always felt slightly nervous of planes, but she had agreed to go on the trip only because the prospect of not seeing her family this summer seemed worse than any of the dangers air travel could pose.
As she waited at the departure gate, she looked around to see many a face a picture of anxiety, [click to continue reading this article…]
You may or may not have seen this story featured in the UK media, but for those of you that have it’s simply another example of bored journalists sensationalising stories in order to sell papers – and generally breeding a fear of flying amongst the general public.
In fact, SKY News reported that the passengers were ‘evacuated’ after each failed take-off attempt. The word evacuation implies an emergency situation. In truth, the passengers disembarked [click to continue reading this article…]
Of course, many of you will have a mild fear of flying, or flying anxiety due to the fact you have never flown before.
This is completely normal. In fact, I was obsessed with planes when I was younger, but before I flew for the first time I suffered from quite severe pre-flight anxiety – and now I fly up to 50 times a month as a Flight Attendant!
It’s basic human psychology – a fear of the unknown. Not knowing what to expect feeds this anxiety. [click to continue reading this article…]
