It's 20 minutes before Alaska Airlines Flight 626 takes off from San Francisco International Airport for Seattle. Colette Vance closes her eyes and calms herself with rosary beads, hoping that her ...

Reason has remarkably little effect on fear of flying, and nothing illustrates this better than looking at the statistics. M.I.T. professor of statistics Arnold Barnett tells us that only 1 in 45 ...

Here's the thing: up to 40 percent of the population of industrialized countries experiences fear of flying, yet in 2024, airlines transported 5 billion passengers on over 40 million flights. That ...

For millions of people, air travel is a routine part of life. But for others, the thought of stepping onto a plane sparks intense anxiety or even panic. Known as aerophobia — or more simply, fear of ...

I’m not averse to flying. I dislike the scowling security checks and inefficient bureaucracies at the airports much more than I’m afraid of turbulence or the potential for catastrophic mishaps. But ...

Plane crashes are rare. Even so, tens of millions of Americans are afraid of flying. Some psychologists say the way through is to gradually face the very thing that feels dangerous. Easier said than ...

It’s twenty minutes before Alaska Airlines flight 626 takes off from San Francisco International Airport for Seattle. Colette Vance closes her eyes and calms herself with a string of rosary beads, ...

Aerophobia, or the fear of flying, affects tens of millions of Americans. One Bay Area program has been helping uneasy travelers fly the friendly skies for 50 years. Plane crashes are rare. Even so, ...