Do you feel safer about air travel since Sept. 11, 2001?

Yes . Important changes were made and continue to be made . It wasn't the easiest thing to do ; but we are adapting and it's still the safest way to travel .

Believe it or not i was one of the first to Fly as a single white man going one way from Austin Texas to Reno Nevada after 9/11.

I have no fear of flying and the TSA was there to question me and check my shoes for a bomb. If i put my mind to it I could figure out a way to make things miserable to the TSA, and the FBI and the CIA and all of the intelligence gathering apparatus of the US government. I am a loyal and patriotic american citizen, I am an honorably discharged Airforce Veteran.

To conduct a terrorist operation in the US is an incredibly easy thing to do. One of these days they will figure that out (the terrorists) Our Constitution makes it easy. we cannot hold or imprison suspected terrorists and we cannot allow illegal search and seizure of any information (supreme court 2006) We are on a path of self destruction as a country. The liberal media has forsaken the path that our fore fathers took. We are bound by the laws of this country and the media is not! They(the liberal media) can report whatever they like yet leave the truth behind. If it makes headines it is good, and if not it is worthless(that is how they think) can GWBush be brought down for the hillary/democrat run for the Presidency in 2008? I doubt it, the US population isn't quite that brainwashed yet. Maybe in 2012 because the next president is going to be handicaped by the left wing media. G W Bush will be the last freely elected president in US history. Next election day, there will be a republican President but he will be a eunich. with a democratic congress and senate, what is the point. With all the rhetoric about the troops in Iraq and afganistan, who is going to vote for a republican congress but they ( the american public ) will vote for a republican president, someone they percieve as strong

Disasters can happen anywhere. People who are adament in attacking another country or person will always find out whims and ways to blow things up. I think that it's really stupid to disallow everything on the plane. With technological advances and long flights, a person can even construct using the in-flight food, thread from their clothes, free alcohol.... and other things available. Does this mean that everyone will have to starve on long flights? It's mass hysteria.

Sept 11 changed the world for sure. Making everyone more panic for the wrong things.

Air Travel in the US has increased from pre- 9/11 days after 5 years of the tragedy. i would say people in general are feeling okay now that the terrorists have used their airplane card and they have lost the element of surprise.

I don't feel more or less safe, but I certainly feel more annoyed.

The security measures are time-consuming, expensive and essentially useless. Undercover operatives have been able to smuggle dangerous things onto airplanes pretty much every time they have tried in testing. And a terrorist could use a bamboo shish-kebab skewer as easily as a knife.

I would not have a problem with the inconveniece if it was actually doing any good.

No - but I didn't feel so great about it beforehand either. The fact remains that many airplane companies are driven by profit and that the pressures in a highly competitve market can lead to flawed decisions regarding safety, maintenence, staffing and so on.

I live in NYC, and I refuse to be afraid. I was on a plane about a month after 9/11. I was scared for about a week, but I won't let this dictate how I live my life.

Yes, though soon it'll get to the point where all carry-ons will be banned. The Shoe-Bomber now means we have to remove our shoes at security; the recent scare in England means no more fluids or gels can get on board; and there's still restrictions on bladed items. All it will take now is a plot involving anthrax or rat poison, and all powders will be banned. And maybe another one involving garrottes or nooses, so all fabric and coils will be prohibited as well.

My prediction, ten years from now: all nude passengers, following body-cavity checks at the gate!

No. Anyone who is determined to blow up a plane, will blow up a plane. You can ban all carry-ons, racially profile passengers, or do anyting else, it wont stop someone who is determined.

Personally, I think the real strategy of the terrorist was to plan one event (9-11) and let American stress out about it for years to come.

I just choose not to stress out.

No, I do not feel safer. I have always been a little nervous about flying but now I would never fly without my son in case something happened. I'd want us to go down together, and wouldn't want to leave him motherless.