We’ve all heard it said that traveling by air is safe. Statistics more than back up this claim. However, there are still some people out there who are absolutely terrified of flying. So terrified in fact, that some people go through some major anxiety attacks just thinking of the possibility of hoping on a plane. Are you one of these people and are you about to go on a trip somewhere? Then you’ve come to the right place. Although we won’t claim to be able to rid you of your flight anxiety, we just might be able to reduce it a bit. These are 25 Reasons Why Fear Of Flying Is Plane Silly (see what we did there, fear of flying…plane silly).
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First of all, there are more than 10,000 planes in the air right now
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There are about 100,000 passenger flights scheduled every single day
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That's not even counting military, cargo, air taxis, and general aviation
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According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in the United States alone 1.73 million people boarded flights every single day in 2010
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Actually, flying is by far the safest form of travel
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