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...sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer to fly. Lightning doesn't strike twice. If I stay home, they...
...McAllister angry? On the contrary. "Except for babies and people who need medicine, I actually like this policy. Very clear, very quick, much safer. And just think: we road warriors can go back to watching the movie, rather than pounding away on the damn keyboard." And if U.S. airlines claim - as they likely would - that such measures will raise ticket prices: Just remember, they claim that about almost everything. McAllister paid about $38 for his trip...
Still, most students exhibit no fear of flying. Diana C. Rosenthal ’05 says, “I feel safer than ever because they have stepped up security to make passengers feel secure. The last thing the airlines need is more layoffs from a lapse in business.” Abby C. Bridges ’05 plans to fly home not only for Thanksgiving but for Columbus Day as well. “My flight plans for Columbus Day are pretty annoying,” says Abby. “They had originally planned to send...
...probably safer now than it's ever been," says Scott Stephenson, an 18-year veteran with American Airlines, one of the two carriers hijacked during attacks on New York City and Washington. "But it's also more intense than it was before. We're told to let security know if we see the slightest thing that looks suspicious. I'm glad they're doing it, because people are still packing funky things like steak knives in their carry-on bags...
...event the teetering-on-the-edge travel industry had been anticipating for weeks: George W. Bush's plan to make air travel safer. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta flew United into Chicago?s O?Hare airport to join Bush for a stump speech that had one stated goal: to get America flying again...