Passengers refuse to fly

[strmrdr]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401419&in_page_id=1770

"Passengers noticed that, despite the heat, the pair were wearing leather jackets and thick jumpers and were regularly checking their watches. "

 

[Mara]

that''s sad.

i am so glad we don''t have any flights planned for the rest of this year, we were considering going to visit greg''s family in the east coast but now i don''t feel like flying at all.

 

[MINE!!]

 

[ephemery1]

That is sad. My best friend and MOH is middle-eastern, and her father is an international marketing consultant who flies around the world regularly. I hate that they are now profiled as potential terrorists and people to be suspicious of. Yet if I were on that British plane, and rumors were flying about those two men, I have no idea what I would have done. It is one thing to say "people are so horrible, jumping to conclusions" in retrospect, knowing the men were cleared... but it is a very different thing to sit there in active fear for the lives of your spouse and children and make a decision to stay on the plane. Like Mara, I''m just glad I''m not flying anywhere in the near future.

 

[CaptAubrey]

Date: 8/20/2006 11:55:54 PM
Author: ephemery1
Yet if I were on that British plane, and rumors were flying about those two men, I have no idea what I would have done. It is one thing to say ''people are so horrible, jumping to conclusions'' in retrospect, knowing the men were cleared... but it is a very different thing to sit there in active fear for the lives of your spouse and children and make a decision to stay on the plane.

Under the current circumstances, it''s understandable. It''s hard to blame people for being afraid--and it''s not like the men were assaulted.

It''s not a pleasant state of affairs, but the terrorists are ultimately to blame for this.

 

[tawn]

I had to fly the evening of the day that the story broke, and I was terrified to go, especially when we pulled up to the San Diego airport and there were a zillion police cars lined up at the terminal! The security was tight, and they took my favorite lip gloss and my mini-mascara, but let me keep my anti-histamine eyedrops...but it all went fairly quickly and smoothly.

Amazingly, my flight was still overbooked and they were looking for people to take flight coupons!

All in all, I was impressed with everything and decided that it might actually be a good time to fly...because security is so serious!

I should probably add that my Dr. prescribed me some Xanax a few hours before I had to leave!

 

[wifey2b]

Date: 8/20/2006 5:26:21 PM
Author:strmrdr
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401419&in_page_id=1770

''Passengers noticed that, despite the heat, the pair were wearing leather jackets and thick jumpers and were regularly checking their watches. ''

Thank you dear...or was I not spose to see this one? giggle - you know I fly out in less than 2 weeks...giggle...Oh I will be ok...I won''t freak out...I don''t think so - giggle lumbtnmw :}

Wifey2b :}

 

[mrssalvo]

Date: 8/22/2006 1:25:05 PM
Author: CaptAubrey

Date: 8/20/2006 11:55:54 PM

Author: ephemery1

Yet if I were on that British plane, and rumors were flying about those two men, I have no idea what I would have done. It is one thing to say ''people are so horrible, jumping to conclusions'' in retrospect, knowing the men were cleared... but it is a very different thing to sit there in active fear for the lives of your spouse and children and make a decision to stay on the plane.

Under the current circumstances, it''s understandable. It''s hard to blame people for being afraid--and it''s not like the men were assaulted.


It''s not a pleasant state of affairs, but the terrorists are ultimately to blame for this.

I agree. i probably would have reacted the same way

. My hubby''s fly''s all the time. We''ve got a flight scheduled together later this fall and I''m so not looking forward to it