Transpac Next Week -- Heed Terror Warning?
Jul 31, 2003 | 4:05 pm
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Transpac Next Week -- Heed Terror Warning?
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I have a transpac coming up next week (Monday) on United; should I or other passengers worry about the new terror threats of suicide hijackings? I noticed whilst looking at some seatmaps on other transpacs that the load has lightened a bit on a number of flights since this announcment was made. Am I right to be a little unnerved or am I overreacting?
Is it just me or do people watch when certain individulas get up and goto the bathroom?
I have a transpac coming up next week (Monday) on United; should I or other passengers worry about the new terror threats of suicide hijackings? I noticed whilst looking at some seatmaps on other transpacs that the load has lightened a bit on a number of flights since this announcment was made. Am I right to be a little unnerved or am I overreacting?
Is it just me or do people watch when certain individulas get up and goto the bathroom?
Jul 31, 2003 | 4:09 pm
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Hey, I think you already answered your own question:
I am bringing my digital camera on the flight so any ******* tries everything, I can personally help beat the living sh!t out of him and take a picture with his mangled @ss with me in it.
Now what I don't quite get is that bit about you being where in whose mangled @ss?
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I am bringing my digital camera on the flight so any ******* tries everything, I can personally help beat the living sh!t out of him and take a picture with his mangled @ss with me in it.
Now what I don't quite get is that bit about you being where in whose mangled @ss?
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Jul 31, 2003 | 4:34 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by beofotch:
should I or other passengers worry about the new terror threats of suicide hijackings?</font>
should I or other passengers worry about the new terror threats of suicide hijackings?</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Am I right to be a little unnerved or am I overreacting?</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Is it just me or do people watch when certain individulas get up and goto the bathroom?</font>
Jul 31, 2003 | 4:43 pm
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Not sure how relevant this is to the UA forum. Perhaps the TravelBuzz forum might yield more feedback to your question?
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Is it just me or do people watch when certain individulas get up and goto the bathroom?
Depends, is s/he a hottie?
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Is it just me or do people watch when certain individulas get up and goto the bathroom?
Depends, is s/he a hottie?
Jul 31, 2003 | 5:09 pm
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You have a greater chance of winning Powerball while being struck by lightning than you do being killed in an airline hijacking.
It's not quite that unlikely, but if you stay home and drive someplace, you're more likely to get killed.
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It's not quite that unlikely, but if you stay home and drive someplace, you're more likely to get killed.
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Jul 31, 2003 | 6:14 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
if you stay home and drive someplace, you're more likely to get killed.</font>
if you stay home and drive someplace, you're more likely to get killed.</font>
fly safe and smart, everyone.
FWIW, I suspect screening at SFO isn't the major protection vs. transpac threat, since pax not asleep on the west bound leg (except for Oz bound) and as much as we query TSA, does one trust every last one of the East Asian screens more? just recall the aborted plan last time
http://www.emergency.com/2002/hambali.htm
my 2 as a transpac flyer
Jul 31, 2003 | 7:12 pm
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Based on their track history of all the other terror warnings issued, I'd say no. There are times I feel they are just tossing random things out there so when something happens (and I do believe it's a when, not an if) they can this time say I told you so, instead of we ignored it all and didn't stop it.
By and by they came to the beautiful palace in which lived the wise King, and upon being brought before him, they all shouted at once; "Good and wise King, we have come to warn you that the sky is falling!"
"How do you know the sky is falling?" asked the King. "Because a piece of it fell on my head," said Chicken Little.
"Come nearer, Chicken Little," said the King and leaning from his velvet throne, he picked the pebble from the feathers of Chicken Little's head.
"You see it was only a little pebble and not part of the sky at all," said the King. "Go home in peace and do not fear because the sky cannot fall; only rain falls from the sky."
By and by they came to the beautiful palace in which lived the wise King, and upon being brought before him, they all shouted at once; "Good and wise King, we have come to warn you that the sky is falling!"
"How do you know the sky is falling?" asked the King. "Because a piece of it fell on my head," said Chicken Little.
"Come nearer, Chicken Little," said the King and leaning from his velvet throne, he picked the pebble from the feathers of Chicken Little's head.
"You see it was only a little pebble and not part of the sky at all," said the King. "Go home in peace and do not fear because the sky cannot fall; only rain falls from the sky."
Jul 31, 2003 | 7:33 pm
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Americans are the most paranoid travellers on earth of course, so I have little doubt loads are and will be down.
I was in Turkey 2 weeks ago and tourism is down horrendously as nearly all US tourists cancelled for summer.
Why? Because Turkey is an "Arabic" country. I kid you not. Durrhhh.
You are statistically FAR more likely to be killed in an auto accident to or from any USA airport, anytime, than on or in a plane. But that will not stop the loads shrinking.
And yes .. why is this thread is the UA forum?
I was in Turkey 2 weeks ago and tourism is down horrendously as nearly all US tourists cancelled for summer.
Why? Because Turkey is an "Arabic" country. I kid you not. Durrhhh.
You are statistically FAR more likely to be killed in an auto accident to or from any USA airport, anytime, than on or in a plane. But that will not stop the loads shrinking.
And yes .. why is this thread is the UA forum?
Jul 31, 2003 | 8:45 pm
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my bad - I was so interested in the question I forgot it was in the wrong forum..please follow it in Travel Buzz
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Jul 31, 2003 | 8:51 pm
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And based on the flakey and dangerously wrong messages Washington seems keen on spouting out on all sorts of things lately, who really takes much notice of anything their "intelligence" gathers?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...480487042.html
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Jul 31, 2003 | 11:34 pm
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Concerned or over-reacting? Over-reacting!
Good grief - there have been a zillion times we've gone to code Orange, threats, etc. I don't want to be blase & say nothing like this can every happen again or the passengers will kill the terrorists on the plane (assuming said terrorists don't have an AK), but odds are you're safer than driving.
There are a zillion flights a day in multiple countries etc - how do you worry/figure out which one is targeted?
PS - I'm mixed on flight figures. On the one hand I want flights to be booked; on the other I'd like them not to be so we get better deals. PS - this "warning" just came out - not that soon to account for reduced loads.
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Good grief - there have been a zillion times we've gone to code Orange, threats, etc. I don't want to be blase & say nothing like this can every happen again or the passengers will kill the terrorists on the plane (assuming said terrorists don't have an AK), but odds are you're safer than driving.
There are a zillion flights a day in multiple countries etc - how do you worry/figure out which one is targeted?
PS - I'm mixed on flight figures. On the one hand I want flights to be booked; on the other I'd like them not to be so we get better deals. PS - this "warning" just came out - not that soon to account for reduced loads.
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Sharon