The survey showed that, in 2022, 44 percent of Americans flew commercially, and almost 90 percent had taken a commercial flight in their lifetime.
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What percentage of people like flying? According to a poll of more than 5,000 adults conducted in January by Ipsos, a global polling firm, 43 percent of Americans said they were “very satisfied” with their overall airline experience, up eight percentage points from the last survey, taken in late 2015.
In the UK, roughly 50% of the population does not participate in air travel in any given year, with 15% of the population responsible for 70% of all flights (Hopkinson and Cairns, 2021).
Popular European destinations like the U.K. (which recorded 3 million American visitors in 2023 through July), France (1.5 million) and Germany (1.6 million) maintained their dominance over the American tourist market, with a total of 11.7 million Americans traveling to Europe, attracting 29.1% of total U.S. citizens ...
Reflecting this increase in miles flown, preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft increased from 1,139 in 2020 to 1,225 in 2021. The number of civil aviation deaths increased from 349 in 2020 to 376 in 2021.
The US leads in number of passengers carried, 926.74 million, in 2019 (The Global Economy, 2019). China claims the second spot with more than 659 million passengers, followed by Ireland with over 170 million. International flights typically use an Airbus A380, which has a seating capacity of 868.
While a clinical diagnosis of aviophobia — a fear of flying — is pretty rare, only affecting 2.5 percent of the population by some estimates, general anxiety about flying is far more common.