People tell us their fear of flying horror stories all the time.  Many times a fearful flyer will email us for help, thinking that they have the worst fear of flying case out there.  Maybe they haven’t flown in 20 years.  Or they bolted from a plane flying to their honeymoon just before the door closed.  Or they drove right past the airport and their flight, continuing to drive to all the way to their destination.  Maybe your horror story is unlike any we’ve heard before.   

Halloween is a natural time to talk about what scares people.  Of the almost 100,000 who participated in a MSNBC poll on Halloween, over 4,000 people chose flying as their greatest fear.  Small spaces, spiders, and heights got more scary votes than flying. Fear of public speaking took top scary honor.  According to the poll, a lot more people are afraid of spiders than airplanes.  So what?  You don’t have to ride a spider to go on vacation, attend the next business conference, or visit Aunt Edith, do you? 

Fear of flying really impacts people and their lives.  It can make them do strange things to avoid flying.  You can always squish a spider in your path but that tactic won’t work with an airplane! But what do you do if you're afraid to fly?  Avoid flying?  White knuckle it and vow never again to get on another plane?  Think you can go and then bolt off the plane because you can't?  

Flying scares the heck out of a lot of people, and not just on Halloween.  So go ahead and tell us your fear of flying horror stories.  We’re listening.  Send us your stories via the comment section of this blog posting, and we’ll feature some of them in a future newsletter.  Include your first name which we'll use if we feature your story.  And just for submitting your story, we'll enter your name in a monthly drawing to participate in a free webinar.