Originally Posted by hedur
now here's my question. could this fact be due at all (even a liitle bit??) to the new, time consuming, annoying, oftentimes inconsistent, and frustrating security that was put in place?
No. The time consuming, annoying, frustrating, inconsistent, money-wasting, airline-industry-sinking,
sexual-abuse-inviting, TSA screening (it's disingenuous to even call it security) is all for show.
I'd gladly put my safety where my mouth is. If I had the option to fly on a completely separate domestic air transport system with no privacy invasions or bodily molestation whatsoever, I would fly it. I think many others would too. The risks are exactly parallel to the risks we all take when we take trains, ride buses, attend sporting events, or just go about our lives in the big city.
Hedur, you're advocating handing the bad guys exactly what they want - they want us to give up our way of life and feel afraid. I'm not afraid. I was on an airplane on September 11, 2001, that landed in Boston at 8:35am. I am much more afraid of Americans allowing their government to spy on and molest its citizens than I am of the consequences of discontinuing airport screening.