AP National News
From DAVID KOENIG
Author of AP Airlines
DALLAS (AP) – Ask anyone old enough to remember traveling before September 11, 2001, and you will likely get a gauzy reminder of what flying was like. There were security checkpoints but it wasn’t intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could walk to the gate together. It all ended when four hijacked planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The worst terrorist attack on American soil resulted in security measures and other changes, big and small, that changed the aviation industry and made air travel more stressful than ever. The changes have also raised concerns about privacy and whether they actually make flying safer.
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