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...fancy weaponry. And Sabena, Belgium?s perennially troubled airline, is offering "Fear of Flying" seminars to its nervous clientele. Amid the worst falloff in passenger traffic in a decade, European airlines are all scrambling to convince the traveling public that it?s still safe to fly in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States...
...American routes was down 25-30% initially, but we don?t know how much it will be affected going forward," said Nick van den Brul, airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London. The Association of European Airlines figures that Europe?s carriers lost $25 million a day in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. British Airways says it will scrap or suspend 190 flights, including 30 on the North Atlantic. The International Air Transport Association said a likely scenario is for air traffic to decline 15% in the four months ending in December, costing the world?s airlines...
...does it strike a sour note. In the aftermath of one awful moment, we've finally come to understand what our parents meant by a cause larger than ourselves. We're hungry for a way to help the war effort, honor the dead and help the survivors. We're not shunning the perfect marbled steak at Morton's for want of a tax break but because it feels wrong with planes being shot at in Afghanistan...
...past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, turned out to be immensely potent. Rather than rogue states shooting missiles, he writes, senior intelligence analysts have said that America’s greatest danger in the coming years would come from terrorists, who could walk into an American city, any American city, and wreak havoc...
...hope that in the aftermath of the attack, and in the wake of their imprudent rally for peace, HIPJ and its supporters learn the destructive power of their insolence, and the perilous consequence of mistaking our privileged lives at school as relevant to problems on the outside...