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With all the anxiety in the air these days, the airlines are having a tough time getting customers to fly their formerly friendly skies. They are doing what they can--cutting rates (as well as staff), doubling frequent-flyer miles, installing titanium cockpit doors and, in the case of an Irish airline, offering an in-flight comedian. If it is fear of flying that is keeping folks home and not a new fondness for the hearth or a plummeting portfolio, perhaps there's help. As a matter of national interest, TIME has enlisted several advertising agencies to devise campaigns...
...antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors by early October...
...just over a month since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and new and drastic measures have been proposed to strengthen America’s airline security. Beyond increased oversight at airport metal detectors and reinforced cockpit doors, some industry leaders and lawmakers have, irresponsibly, proposed arming pilots as a deterrent against terrorism. Testifying before a congressional subcommittee, Duane Woerth, the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, America’s largest pilot union, advocated a plan to do just that—to equip pilots with firearms...
...more skeptical. According to The New York Times, Delay said, “I don’t want any cowboy pilots going back to fight hijackers and leaving the plane unattended.” Across the aisle, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) indicated that strengthening cockpit doors is more sensible. The New York Times reported that Gephardt said, “I don’t think we need pilots trying to be security officers...
Surely the expense of placing at least one armed air marshal on each plane, reinforcing cockpit doors and instituting thorough and efficient screenings of passengers before they board is a small enough price to pay for air-travel safety. Americans should not have to fear and avoid flying! N. HARRY GARTZMAN Philadelphia...