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...commercial airports and terminals. Petersen Aviation, which charters jets out of Van Nuys Airport in California, says that before last month's attacks, flyers could drive to within 6 ft. of the plane and board with their luggage without going through a security check. After Sept. 11, a double-gate security system was installed, and passenger access will be more heavily restricted. It's not a big change. But as companies are learning, every little shift in the odds can help...
...cope with the crisis Swissair was forced to draft plans for its second restructuring in five months. The airline will now concentrate on higher-margin business travel in Europe and scale back its long hauls by 25%. Swissair said it would cut 3,000 jobs at its catering subsidiary, Gate Gourmet, and merge with its regional airline Crossair into a single carrier, resulting in thousands more job losses. "It?s the beginning of a more realistic time," said Sepp Moser, an industry analyst. A prominent industrialist, Ulrich Bremi, was named to head a panel that is trying to raise...
...airlines, which created the problem in the first place. When is the last time you checked a bag that you weren't forced to? That's because people don't trust that their bag will end up in the same airport on the same day they do. And airline gate agents rarely challenge the size of anyone's carry-on because they want to get paying passengers on the plane with the least amount of friction. Statistically, lost or delayed bags aren't that large an issue, but the mental anguish of being without your toothbrush or even more intimate...
...judicial assistant who was headed for Chicago. "I don't mind at all." Of course most of the people who ended up checking their bags were either women traveling alone or a couple that included a woman: I saw several male road warrior types who strolled right to the gate with their bulky cases squeaking along beside them...
This means war, Morrow informed us before the dust had settled on Manhattan Island. But what does it mean to "toughen up" and give the "uncivilized" their due when the barbarians are not waiting at the gate but are already among us? To resort to hatred in this crisis is to pull the pin on a hand grenade without having anywhere to throw it. JONATHAN HARTGROVE St. Davids...