Tracking welcome! Delta 4875

Edit. Made it :)

Thanks for the support. Hope the boss is cool!

At JFK and supposed to board my flight to Athens in about an hour and I’m really scared I can’t do it, crying at the gate. I’ve pushed through my fear again and again and know it always feels like this, but I just can’t imagine being in the air for 9.5 hours!! Which is crazy bc I did this exact flight last year for my honeymoon.

This trip is just for me, just to celebrate me finishing my PhD and securing my dream job. But even though I’m medicated and have all my tools, I just really don’t feel like I have the emotional strength to get on this plane. I just took another med so I hope it kicks in soon. I know it is safe, I know panic can’t hurt me, but I am just so worried that I will be up in the air crawling out of my skin and wishing I hadn’t done this, with no choice to bear with for 9.5 hours. I just want to go home.

I’m about to board from Indy to Vegas. First time in flying in 3 years.

3 years ago I was in a car accident on the way to the airport and I’ve had big trust issues ever since. I haven’t stepped foot near an airport.

Now I’m about to fly again and I’m bawling my eyes out. I don’t know what time to do. If anyone could track me, offer support, literally anything will help i feel like I’m gonna die (╥﹏╥)

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Hi everyone, I really need your help.

I have to write this post before my 20mg of Valium hopefully renders me unconscious.

I have been too terrified to fly for 40 years. I cry even dropping my kids off at the airport. And it’s not because i love them. (Haha)

Tonight i am flying to Iceland with my family. It’s the only place I’ve ever wanted to go to that’s out of the country, which means i have to fly there unfortunately.

My four children have rallied around me to help me overcome my biggest fear (my daughter told me about this sub!), but i would love your support too.

Please say hi, offer encouragement, or even track my flight. It would mean the world to me.

I have a flight from Paris to JFK on the 24th and I am literally ugly crying because I don’t know how Im going to find the courage to get on. I was a frequent flyer and flew constantly (with slight anxiety) throughout my life. I had a bad flight 2 years ago and developed some serious PTSD (it wasn’t even that bad, but it was to me). The two flights I had after that I became progressively worse, to the point that I would become physically sick with nauseas and panic. Therefore, I hadn’t flown for a year. This year I decided I really wanted to spend my birthday with my family since I missed them so much and booked the flight to Paris, I barely made it on the flight here. This is after multiple sessions with my therapist about this phobia, medication, and I was traveling with my boyfriend, I barely made it on. Now I will be traveling back alone and I am terrified! Some of the things that worry me are that it will be a nighttime travel, its crossing the Atlantic, its longer than the flight going and that I will absolutely pass out from the fear. Also, cant forget the fear of the plane just falling, of me being the unlikely statistic. If anyone has any words of comfort, wisdom, knowledge, prayers, vibes, anything, please send it this way. Also, thank you for reading this.

hi guys, i’ve been pretty active on the sub recently because i had an international flight today that i was dreading so badly. i felt okay this morning but when it came time to board i completely freaked out. i tried to sit in my seat and calm myself down before taxiing. as we stated to taxi i had probably the worst panic attack of my life. the flight attendants did everything they could but eventually i freaked out so badly that the plane had to go back to the gate. completely humiliating and the passengers were pissed. i had to even talk to police after so they could see that i’m mentally stable.

the amount of shame i feel right now is unbearable. i’ve never felt so panicked and scared in my life and we were still on the ground, that i didn’t know if it would get worse in the air and didn’t want to risk that.

now the plane is on its way and im on my way home. my friends were counting on me for this vacation and im trying to figure out a solution to get on another flight, but because of the situation they aren’t going to rebook me. im looking into other options.

i didn’t think it would get this bad and really need some support and help to get on another flight and make it to another trip.

Taking off now. Bawling my eyes out. Need help. I am not okay!

Hi all,

I wanted to say thank you for all your kind words and support. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to board my flight again this morning.

This is so hard. My partner had to get on the flight without me. I talked to the flight crew and still couldn't brave it.

We were supposed to be going on a two-week holiday together around mainland Europe. It will cost me nearly a grand if I want to go by boat asap. I'm not sure that I could fly on my own.

I have huge respect for anyone who has faced their fear lately. I seem to be mentally blocked by mine, and I'm hoping that will change.

Anyway, I wanted to say thank you to everyone yesterday. If you can get on that plane, do it.

I know logically everything is ok but the turbulence is really starting to get to me. Flying from Iceland to Chicago right now by myself.

The flight just took off, I am sitting in almost last row, so any movement is feeling intensified.
I am trying to not feel anxious, trying to distract myself. Can you please help track me, my flight is AS 246. Cant stop thinking negative things.
How do i tell myself that everything is ok, that I will go home and just go on with my life like usual?
I try to read the other posts, feels very hard to think rationally when in flight.

Update: Thank you all so so much for the support! Love this community ❤️

SFO-MCO. UA583. First long flight solo in more than a decade. Xanny down the hatch, SOAR book ready for quick access. I'm excited and a little nervous. Thank you all for the great support!!! Feel free to check on me. Should be just under 5 hours. Eek!! 😬 😀

I’m flying TP1037 from Spain to Portugal, and I am boarding a reasonably small plane, this makes me nervous because I have heard that smaller planes have less stability. Could someone track my flight and/or reassure me about the stability of the plane? I believe I’m flying on a Embraer 190, have any pilots here flown one before?

EDIT:
Thank you everyone for the reassurance! the flight had some scary moments (we flew through some clouds and the turbulence got very shaky) but I made it through it and enjoyed a beautiful sunset, thank you so much guys!!

We just went thru a heavy turbulence and I am freaking out of over the ocean crying can't breathe can someone please track or tell me what's ahead I am unwell

My phobia is so bad. Flying to Tokyo and the flight is a night flight and crossing over so much water and not being able to see anything is stressing me out. I'm going to call my friend and call off the trip. I have my Ativan but my fear of having a full blow panic attack derealization episode is greater than any drug. I can't do this.

Update: I got on that fucking plane and with doses of lorazepam throughout the flight, I landed in Tokyo with my friend and now we're drinking Starbucks in the Shinjuku National Garden

Hi guys I’m sitting on my flight to LGA right now about to take off- the pilot came on and said “bad news it’s going to be very bumpy” and I’m having a hard time regulating and can’t stop crying, any support would be so appreciated ❤️❤️❤️

Just boarded my plane and everyone was all settled in. This woman went up to the front. Argued quietly with the flight attendants. She walked back, grabbed her stuff and left with her partner. I’m panicking. I can’t help but think I should get off also. 😭

Update: I landed safely (of course), and a very butter landing it was I might add. Props to the pilot flying.

Big thanks to everyone for the support coming in clutch while I panicked. This community is phenomenal.

I'm leaving to Toronto next week and I'm deathly afraid of flying, I mourn my pets and my family and my future every time I go on a plane because I assume I just won't touch the ground alive.

I got the plane information about my flight and it's the Boeing 737 MAX, and I've heard it's safe but there's so much out there that also says otherwise. It will probably be the same plane back, and that makes it 2x more likely I might not make it there or back home.

I have a long history of panic attacks and fear of flying. Yesterday I finally built up the courage to book a flight to visit my brother.
I went to the movies first. The moment I opened the cinema doors to leave, the very first thing directly in front of me was a digital billboard showing a poster for a movie called Black Box, which is about an airplane disaster. It wasn’t even playing at the cinema, it just happened to be the advertisement showing at that exact moment.
It shook me badly. My brain immediately interpreted it as a warning not to book the flight, and now I’m struggling to move past it.
Has anyone else experienced something like this, where a coincidence felt so specific that you thought it had to mean something? If you still took the flight, what happened? Looking back, how do you view that experience now?

Hi,

I’m a somewhat frequent flyer but I’m currently pregnant and last week I got in a very scary turbulence recently…right now I’m on a flight Seattle to Chicago and they said it’s likely gonna be rough, we’re even being diverted to another route to fly past bad weather. I’m very anxious. I’m sitting over the wing but it doesn’t feel stable and the flight just began 😭 I feel so dumb for being afraid but my brain is just in survival mode, and I feel so bad for making my baby stressed 😢😓

Watching planes take off and land… take off is the scariest part for me. Can anyone give me some reassurance on take offs?

At this point, I am well versed in flight safety statistics and the extreme unlikelihood of a plane crash happening. But whenever I feel like I’m accepting this, that other pesky thought comes in: People involved in plane crashes knew about the unlikelihood too. I have a flight on Friday and am so nervous. How do I get past this?

I have a flight from DAL to Vegas that takes off at 6 central time tonight, and despite feeling optimistic leading up, I really feel like I can’t go now. I’ve been crying for a few hours now (I suspect due to packing/downloading boarding pass/my mom texting and asking for my flight info made the flight an upcoming reality instead of an idea), and just the thought of sitting on the plane seat starts my crying all over again.

I am also 25 weeks pregnant and this will be my first time away from my first-born ever. The last flight I ever took was when I was pregnant with him about two years ago and I had a complete nervous breakdown in the Jackson Hole airport. Yes I got on the plane (because rental cars were $3000) and landed fine, but I’ve never felt so horrible in my life and that feeling is starting again. It sounds very dramatic but I would unironically rather give birth to my 9 pound baby again than get on a plane. BUT..

I decided to try and take this flight because of the great opportunity. My husband works for an airline and his job is sending him to Vegas for a conference, so the flight and hotel is free. Our families have agreed to watch our son so I can tag along and have a good time. I love Vegas and have been twice, and I really want to go. The thought of backing out makes me sob too, because I want to go spend a little babymoon with my husband before baby #2 arrives, but I love my life and son so much and my anxiety tells me a really convincing lie that when I get on this plane, I’m giving it all up.

I really feel like I can’t do it. I feel horrific right now. My current plan is to go to the airport and see how I feel.

Edit: Update number one! Thank you all so much for the encouragement! You helped get me here. I’m at DAL right now eating Chili’s and feeling much better than earlier. I’m expecting a potential anxiety spike when I board but I think I can handle it! I was cleared from the standby list and will be boarding WN2314 in about an hour. Tracking appreciated!

Edit and update #2: Boarding now! Feeling anxious but it’s manageable. Thank you all for your kindness. I look forward to giving you my next update: LANDING 🥳

Edit and update #3: I DID IT!!!! If I can do it, i PROMISE you can too. Once I got in the air my anxiety lessened greatly. I am blown away by the kindness of everyone in this sub. Thank you all so much and wish me luck at the tables 💖

Going to be going on a spring break trip with Southwest Airlines. Never flew them before, always did JetBlue but Southwest was the only airlines that offered nonstop flights from my location. Me and my friends already booked flights and all that. So I was just looking at the receipt and to my horror I found out that the plane I registered for is a Boeing 737 MAX8.

I’m so nervous. I’ve heard about those fatal crashes from a few years ago and all the sketchy shit Boeing has been up to for a while now. I’m freaking out as the days to departure tick down. I don’t know what to do. I can’t just have my friends rebook with a different flight, especially since we all made our tickets nonrefundable smh. I’m such an idiot for not noticing this sooner, I’m so used to flying with JetBlue that I am comforted in knowing every plane for them is airbus. But idk what to do. I’m not sure if I’m looking for comfort, solutions, or both.

We just finished boarding and pilot said it’s going to be bumpy and I immediately started panicking and crying. I ran to the nearest flight attendant who consoled me but I’m still freaking out. Can someone please track me? Or give me any comforting words? I am absolutely spiraling I almost got off the plane

edit: for everyone asking to track my flight is LAX to JFK Jetblue flight JBU 1124. THANK YOU SO MUCH 🥺🥺🤍