amazing nj, I enjoyed your post. Have you contacted CO or EWR officials to suggest this? I think this is a great idea, especially for school age kids who may have been (or still are) very frightened by what happened on September 11. People may say "yeah, right, that's all we need right now is a bunch of non passenger kids adding to the mess at the airports, etc etc".

Well, OK. But I still think this is a great thing to do with your kids or your students in cooperation with airport officials and perhaps the airlines. I would have loved a field trip to the airport as a little kid. It's never too early to learn about travel, security, airplanes, and all sorts of interesting stuff (including MILES!).

Get the airlines to do some clever marketing here to sponsor these sorts of visits - if they can't get the adults to fly again, maybe interested kids can. Good luck with this, amazing nj. I know your sons will appreciate this now and especially when they're older.

Back on topic: BooBooKitty, what airline is your mother flying? Why can't you ask the airline if they can facilitate you? Or the airport? Have you tried calling? Has anyone called about this? It seems like this would be the most straightforward way to get information on the topic before buying a ticket that won't be used and then hassling about the refund.

[This message has been edited by blairvanhorn (edited 11-11-2001).]