This morning I flew from pbi-iah(flight 1731)
I'm connecting on to slc in 90 mins. Some details for about todays flight.

4:50am arrive PBI, airport areas had more police presence than normal.

Approx 40 people waiting at ticket counter.
7 people ahead of me on the first class check-in line.
Passengers are in good spirits, very friendly towards each other.

ticket counter opens at 5:30am

Although I did not use one, people appeared to be using the e-ticket machines

check-in begins approx 5:25am, everything is very orderly

During check-in, Photo ID checked, standard 2 security questions asked.

Only noticable difference is that bags are checked to verify that they had ID on them.
Ticket counter agent checked the name on the luggage tag to see that it matched my passport. I also noticed several people that were told they needed ID on the bags or they would not check them.

5:50 reach security check-point. This is a noticable difference.
Photo ID checked very closely, security matches name on boarding pass with
name on photo id. You can see them checking the exact spelling on the id
and boarding pass. BTW: security is extremely polite(lots of good mornings
and thank yous can be heard). Metal detectors seem to be set to very sensitive
level. People that fail the machine check are checked via hand held detector, very
thoroughly. People are actually patted down. Nobody seems to complain.

The wait at the security check-point is about 5 minutes. Palm Beach is a smaller aiport and it was 6am, but lines at security was not long.

Arrive at the gate around 6:00am.

Keep in mind the flight was very empty, mostly Continental flight crew. This MD-80 had approximately 35-40 non-continental passengers.

As we boarded they did NOT check ID again.

One interesting(at least I thought so) note, I noticed the baggage handlers checking bag tags as the loaded them. I can't be sure, but it looked like they had a list they were comparing tags against. They clearly were checking bags. I noticed 2 placed off to the side and not loaded immediately.

The inflight service was pretty much the same except for one very noticable(at least to me) difference. The standard First Class silverware pack was no more, the knife was not metal but a flimsy plastic one.

You could also sense a lot of people checking out their fellow passengers, a lot of eye contact as people boarded, much more than normal.

I'm at the President's club in Houston right now and I've heard from other people that lines at the ticket counter here are very long. 20 mins on the elite line is what one person told me.