After a bad year for the air travel industry dominated by disasters and technical meltdowns, Alex Preston decides to come to terms with his ‘aviophobia’It’s been a bad year for aviophobes. About 30% of us find air travel anything from faintly disconcerting to unutterably terrifying, as we pore over reports of near-misses and midair collisions and watch episodes of Air Crash Investigation through clenched fingers. A smaller number won’t be tempted on to an aeroplane for all the riches of Richard Branson, certain that, whatever statistics say, humans simply weren’t meant to be rattling through the air in a malodorous …read more
Source: The Guardian
