Despite a vastly larger number of aircraft entering the air and higher air traffic density since a few decades ago, the safety and overall reliability of air travel is certainly higher than it was 20, 30, or 40 years ago. It will always rub some people the wrong way regardless, as flying around is a somewhat foreign regime for the human body and mind, but is nonetheless safe.
It's important to remember how few and far between aviation accidents are in relativity to the number of takeoffs and landings there are every day. The worst accidents in aviation have obviously been very bad, but it's because of their rarity and the fact that such accidents always end up all over the news and on shows like Mayday that we tend to overemphasize them much more than we should when boarding a flight.
I also find that the perceived fragility of an airborne aircraft is what makes many nervous on a flight. Things like turbulence especially seems to incite a fear that the airplane will be damaged or will "fall out of the sky", but when you realize the testing that an aircraft is put through, and how flexible and capable they really are, it starts to seem much better.
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