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...already coming off its worst summer since the Gulf War, struggling with an economic slowdown, miniscule profit margins and staggering debt. And after losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day during last week?s total grounding, airlines have slashed schedules 20 to 60 percent this week as ticket sales have crashed. Even the flight attendants who lost 25 colleagues in Tuesday?s suicide hijackings, are requesting unpaid leaves out of fear for their lives...
...first gift Tom White recalls bestowing on anyone was a $200 train ticket. Returning home to Boston after his tour as a paratrooper in World War II, he found an Army pal struggling with civilian life and alcohol abuse. "I got him back to his family in Minnesota, where he could straighten out," White says. "That was a lot of money back then. But I don't like to see people hurting...
...front of the security gate, a sign reads “Attention: beyond security checkpoint all persons may be subject to random searches, ID verification and ticket verification...
...small pocket knives with blades up to four inches long. Of the new security measures announced in the wake of the attacks, only the ban on metal knives would have interfered with the recent hijackings. The ending of curbside check-in and the restriction of boarding areas to ticket-holding passengers may serve to inconvenience terrorists, but such measures seem ill-designed to stop them...
...directives include random checks of carry-on luggage by state police, K-9 patrols of airport roadways, cargo areas and ticket counters and state police and federal agents stationed at security checkpoints throughout the airport...