{"id":38402,"date":"2026-03-22T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38402"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:51:34","slug":"how-to-overcome-your-fear-of-flying-as-flight-anxiety-runs-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38402","title":{"rendered":"How to overcome your fear of flying as flight anxiety runs high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/19\/5d8d76bf-88a5-4793-845e-78b9bd69f3e6_d21468ff.jpg?itok=NeCLOjAL&amp;v=1773900530\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While aeroplane cockpits may be more hi-tech than ever and commercial flying is safer than ever, the fear of flying remains a stubborn hurdle for many.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Commercial flying is statistically the safest mode of transport by far and it has become steadily safer each decade since the 1960s, according to research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet as many as 40 per cent of people in developed countries grapple with some form of aviophobia \u2013 a clinical anxiety that turns a flight into a psychological battle.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a survey of nearly 2,000 US air travellers this month by travel website The Points Guy, 46 per cent admitted they had experienced an increase in anxiety in light of recent airline safety incidents, with 8 per cent delaying or cancelling plans due to their fear.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Katie Forster, the founder of a Hong Kong-based communications agency, is among those who dread flying. With an international client list, she flies about once a month, often long haul to the United States. But she has never let her fear prevent her from flying; instead, she has found methods to cope.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Forster does not recall ever being scared of flying as a child. Her fear was triggered in her twenties after a flight she was on from Hong Kong to Bangkok encountered severe turbulence, sending her anxiety into overdrive.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI remember looking out of the window at clear blue skies and thinking, \u2018This isn\u2019t so bad,\u2019\u201d she recalls. Then the plane dropped.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe plunge probably only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like forever. The captain made an announcement \u2026 saying that \u2018a slow and heavy aircraft\u2019 had passed through the area only a few minutes earlier and we\u2019d experienced something called \u2018clear air turbulence\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3347025\/how-overcome-your-fear-flying-flight-anxiety-runs-high?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While aeroplane cockpits may be more hi-tech than ever and commercial flying is safer than ever, the fear of flying remains a stubborn hurdle for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8912,611,1153,1410,1950,18748,16475],"class_list":["post-38402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-anxiety","tag-fear","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-high","tag-overcome","tag-runs","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}