Thanks for your description ! I was wondering about this after seeing
all
the messages -- Hank Hogan
PS are you any relation to a Grover Stephens ?
Mike Stephens wrote:
> I'm on a Delta flight as I write this reply.
> As a frequent flier (~120 flights per year) I am most
> interested in the effects that the 9-11 attack will have
> on our means of travel. Interestingly, there seemed to
> be very minimal change at D/FW airport - one-hour parking
> has been gotten rid of (those sections are now chained off)
> and there were quite a number of police and security officials
> both outside and inside the terminal. As far as the security
> gate goes, however, the only change that I noted was that
> they check your ticket and photo ID before you can proceed
> through the security checkpoint. Other than that, everything
> was "normal". No difference in carry-on limits, the plane's
> overhead bins were full and they had to check some carry on
> bags for lack of room on the plane. This is typical. At the
> security checkpoint they were not going through bags (like
> I saw on TV last week); just the random swabbing of bags
> to run through the explosive detector like they've been doing
> for a couple of years. Don't know if this is the same elsewhere,
> but it looked to me like carrying on my photo gear would be
> no problem. My computer bag had a notebook PC, numerous
> interconnect cables, network card, cell phone, pager,
> handheld computer (Apple Newton), spare batteries, cigar
> lighter and cigars, (no cutter - I put that in my checked bag),
> numerous pens and other items. It sailed through without
> anyone even batting an eye at it. My carry on bag with clothes,
> toothbrush, electric razor, was swabbed to check for bomb
> material, but this was a random check, not called for by
> the person operating the X-ray.
>
> Don't know if I feel at ease by this 'normalcy' in
> security, but I would certainly not hesitate to bring a
> bag full of photo gear with me as carry on at this point.
>
> What have others experienced?
>
> Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Troy
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:17 PM
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] [OT] no more carryons?
> >
> >
> > This is my third and last post on the OT subject! Looks like the
> > President's message didn't include the no-carryon item after
> > all. Let's
> > hope it stays that way.
> >
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/27/rec.bush.airports/index.html
> >
> > Steve Troy
> >
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