Langoliers.

A group of travelers on a red-eye flight from California to Maine wake up to discover that most of their fellow passengers have vanished mid-flight, along with the pilots and flight attendants.

([source][1])

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Also contained in:

- [Four Past Midnight][2]

- [The Langoliers / Secret Window, Secret Garden][3]

[1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novella/langoliers_the.html

[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81606W/Four_Past_Midnight

[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149142W/The_Langoliers_Secret_Window_Secret_Garden