increased security?
 

my next UA trip to USA starts tomorrow - do I have to expect longer line-queus and because of the higher terrorist awareness?

For the inner-american-flights I will only have hand-luggage and I'll check-in at 1K or Red Carpet.

JFK, LGA-(ORD)-MEX, SFO, JFK

If any-one of my Flyer-Talk "correspondents" sees at the above airports somebody carrying a "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" - please contact him = me, and let's have a drink together.

I've been on three flight since the attacks in afganistan (including one on the day it happened) and noticed no significant change in security, except maybe that the screening personnel seemed a little more awake than they ususally do. And curbside check-in (which is usuaually the first to go during a security crackdown) was still in effect. But, IMHO, security lines have been long since the FAA increased the sensitivity of the metal detecters after the Oklahoma bombing (since then I have had to take my watch off to get through detecters).

When I flew out of DCA the day after the missile strikes the security personnel were using the explosives detection machines on *every* laptop computer.

Of my 40 or so trips through security checkpoints in the past with these machines they had only checked my laptop once.

I went through the Continental hub terminal
in Newark relatively normally. In fact a bit
faster because I used the e-ticket and went
right to the gate. I asked the gate agent
if they needed to check my i-d, looked at it
quickly and let me aboard. Did not see any
increased sense of security.

Which raises this question... if you get a boarding pass from the e-ticket machine how
can the airlines make sure they check your
i-d? I only had mine checked because I
insisted on it! CATMAN