Up to 53% of Airline Passengers May Suffer From NoMoPhobia


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Happy Halloween travels. If you can’t be connected on your flight today, consider buying a Little Book of Calm. (That one’s for our Brit friends, straight from their Black Books.)

If you feel pricking on your thumbs and fear that wicked radio silence coming once you board the aircraft, you’re not alone. The chill running up your spine, the sweaty palms, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and deep sense of dread you experience when the flight attendant asks you to put your personal electronic devices on flight-mode has a name: NoMoPhobia (extra capitals ours, because this phobia is Geek not Greek). The condition was first identified in a YouGov study co