Really? What's the basis for that belief, some sort of lightning-strikes-twice theory? It's pretty silly for an airline to be extra-concerned about security because they happened to be the victims of a hijacking. Clearly, every airline is exposed to an identical risk, however large or small that risk might be. You can't seriously believe that terrorists -- who don't exist in the U.S., in my opinion, but never mind that for the moment -- when planning their nefarious terrorist plots, say to themselves, "Hmmm, let's see, we were able to hijack American's planes last time, so let's go after them again." Isn't it just as likely they would go after another airline? Or just choose one at random?

Actually, if terrorists are planning anything in the U.S., it's unlikely they would go after air travel at all. Been there, done that. How about going after schools, like the Chechens did in Russia. Now that's really nasty. They killed hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia. If that happened here, we would immediately establish the Primary School Security Administration, another Federal agency, with at least 500,000 employees to guard the entrances to all schools in America. Then the terrorists would switch to malls, leading to the Federal Mall Security Administration, etc. Eventually, we could just lock everybody in their homes to keep them safe. I can't wait.

Bruce