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If you have ever flown on commercial air flights, in smaller propeller aircraft, or in helicopters and have experienced the fear of flying you are not alone. Millions of people around the world who travel by airlines on their vacation or holidays have experienced the same fear to a lesser or greater extent. There are also millions of people worldwide that travel by auto, bus, train just to avoid commercial air flights. Some vacationers may take cruises if they are close enough to drive to the cruise line departure ports.

The fear of flying is called Aviophobia, and millions of vacationers and business people that travel on commercial air flights including potential flyers worldwide who suffer from it, to a greater or lesser extent. Even though air travel is around thirty times safer than traveling by car, you rarely hear about people that have a fear of driving. Maybe the TV, radio, internet and print media contributes to this fear when they graphically cover commercial airline crashes and the subsequent large number of air passengers that are injured or die.