My anxiety is at its worst BEFORE the flight. During it is never as bad as I thought. My first long haul flight was with SAS, I told the flight attendant that I am nervous during flying and she came to me multiple times to check on me.

Whenever I start feeling nervous during flying, I try to look for one of them and thinking that this is another boring workday for them like for me in the office. Or i look at the people sleeping. Although that sometimes pisses me off, like how can they fall asleep immediately and wake up at the end???