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An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2942" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/11/an-entire-generation-of-americans-has-no-idea-how-easy-air-travel-used-to-be_partner/" target="_blank"><strong>An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be - Salon</strong></a></p><p></p><p>During the mid-1990s I traveled between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., twice a month during the school year as half of a commuting couple. I could leave Dayton by 5:15 p.m., drive nearly 80 miles to the Columbus airport during rush hour, park my car in the economy lot, and still get to my gate in plenty of time for a 7:30 p.m. departure.</p><p></p><p>Then 9/11 happened.</p><p></p><p>The terrorist attacks brought swift and lasting changes to the air travel experience in the United States. And after 20 years of ever-more-elaborate airport security protocols, many air travelers have no knowledge of – or only vague memories of – what air travel was like before 9/11.</p><p></p><p>As someone <a href="https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/history/bednarek_janet.php" target="_blank">who has studied the history of airports in the United States</a> – and someone old enough to remember air travel before 9/11 – I find it striking, on the one hand, how reluctant the federal government, the airlines, and airports were to adopt early security measures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2942, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.salon.com/2021/09/11/an-entire-generation-of-americans-has-no-idea-how-easy-air-travel-used-to-be_partner/'][B]An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be - Salon[/B][/URL] During the mid-1990s I traveled between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., twice a month during the school year as half of a commuting couple. I could leave Dayton by 5:15 p.m., drive nearly 80 miles to the Columbus airport during rush hour, park my car in the economy lot, and still get to my gate in plenty of time for a 7:30 p.m. departure. Then 9/11 happened. The terrorist attacks brought swift and lasting changes to the air travel experience in the United States. And after 20 years of ever-more-elaborate airport security protocols, many air travelers have no knowledge of – or only vague memories of – what air travel was like before 9/11. As someone [URL='https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/history/bednarek_janet.php']who has studied the history of airports in the United States[/URL] – and someone old enough to remember air travel before 9/11 – I find it striking, on the one hand, how reluctant the federal government, the airlines, and airports were to adopt early security measures. [/QUOTE]
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