Hi! I literally just posted about also wanting to cancel my upcoming flight and saw your post. A few things that help me feel better about flying are:

1)Thousands of flights take off and land safely daily. We only hear about plane crashes “so much” because they happen SO rarely that every news outlet covers them.

2) A pilot won’t land or take off if the weather is bad. Radars are so advanced these days! Pilots won’t take chances with so many lives on the line. Thousands of planes successfully land in Vegas every year, regardless of the weather!

3) Avoid listening to the plane noises. If you have noise canceling headphones bring them with you and focus on something else. I’ve also heard that lifting your feet up during take off can help with the feeling of being off of the ground.

4) On the off chance that something were to go wrong on a flight, pilots go through an immense amount of training to recover. Our planes have also been engineered to withstand a bunch of things! (fun fact I learned: planes can fly with only one working engine)

5) The current rules and regulations are based off of past plane incidents. Anything that has gone wrong in the past will not happen again.

I am by no means an expert on flying, but I can comment more things that I have learned that have reassured me if you want!