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Sure, I get a bit anxious and nervous in the days and hours leading up to a flight. But it's usually nothing paralyzing. Usually I calm myself by repeating over and over in my head that I'll have a better chance of dying on the car ride to the airport than I will during the airplane flight itself. It is, after all, statistically the safest form of transportation, right?
So yeah, I rationalize my small fear by telling myself that it's the media's coverage of airplane crashes that drives this anxiety in me. Just being calm, trying to focus my attention on something else while flying, or just telling myself that thousands and thousands of flights happen every single day without any incident does the trick.
Overall, I'm typically just fine. I think it's really more of something you have to get used to, and it's something you get over very quickly the more you have to fly. Not many business travelers have fears of flying, after all.
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