Who will fly on Sept. 11?
 

Who will fly on Sept. 11?

Airlines are watching bookings carefully to see

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo...3E02A1618A8%7D

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As you know, it's a Wednesday. Anyone planning to fly? Just wondering! Thanks! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I am planning to be on my way to Istanbul on September 11th. I think there was a thread very much like this in the AA forum a while back, and I think the general consensus was that people would treat the day like any other, and not be put off flying.

I get back from SIN the night before... but if I'm needed on a client site that week, it is likely I would travel.

If I don't travel, it won't be out of fear.

Interesting thread. Would not bother me at all, but I suspect it would affect a very large slab of less regular travellers. I imagine there will be far lower than usual loads that day on US carriers.

I also return from SIN on the 10th. I have no problem traveling the next day if the need arises.

Looks like it will be a good day to get an upgrade

If I need to fly, I will fly. If I don't, I won't. At this point, I don't know what I will be doing on that day. I may be in New Zealand skiing, so if anything happens, I will definitely be out of the loop. And if they shut down the travel system again, I'll be stuck on the other side of the world. That actually might not be a bad thing.

Some folks do even get used to it apparently. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

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~ Glen ~

[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 07-02-2002).]

I won't fly that day. Mostly to put my family at ease, partially because I don't want to deal with insane hyped-up security that day (I flew LHR-ORD on the 1 year anniversary of Pan Am 103, and it was just ridiculous - I can imagine what ORD will be like on 9/11/02). But since it's a Wednesday, there's a good chance that I'll already be at a client site and will fly around it, like the 9th and 13th.

I probably won't be flying that day, because I almost never have occasion to be flying on a Wednesday--the date has nothing to do with it.

Yes, and I was thinking to myself, as friendly as the Kiwis are, if something happened that would have forced the transportation system to shut down again, I think I would be well taken care of. I mean, the hotel staff sent me an e-mail after the terrorist attacks telling me how sorry they felt about the whole thing. I was like, wow, did I make that much of an impression on you guys?

I think it was the tipping. I just didn't know any better =)

The following week I'll be on vacation and am headed for Switzerland. I tried to book award seats on UA for Sept. 13--Friday!--but couldn't get them so opted for the next-closest available date--Sept. 11. I booked the transatlantic seats without considering the date. I'm still hoping that waitlists for Friday the 13th clear--but an odd choice to be making, Sept. 11 or Friday the 13th.

Sounds like a good day to fly... if loads are low enough, higher security might not cause much of a delay. Maybe bigger problems on transcon routes?

But, I don't think the loads will be as low as on 12/31/1999 (Y2K paranoia)... that evening, I flew BOS-JFK-ANC-ICN on a single KE 747 (I think they may have since dropped the BOS-JFK segment from the route).

We got a new crew at each stop. So, about 60 crew total, and one awfully empty 747, in the end got a total of around 20 passengers around the world. I wonder how much money they lost on that? At least they served lots of champagne. And, I got to fly BOS-JFK on "my own" 747 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif Not sure that will happen again...

I also return from SIN on the 10th and have to head out to my client site on the 11th, so I'll be flying. I have no choice, really, but also I don't think I'm any more or less safe that day than any other.

Another thats back from SIN on Sept. 10. I have no problem flying on Sept. 11, but have no plans as of yet.