Heard today that the FAA might ban international flights into/out of NYC/ Washington DC and PA area where the planes went down on the anniversary of September 11th next month. They have not made a firm decision yet.

looks like they changed thier minds...

Planned Sept. 11 Restrictions On Foreign Flights Canceled

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 30, 2002; Page A06

The Bush administration overturned a Pentagon plan to restrict foreign flights in New York and Washington on Sept. 11 after concluding it would break international agreements, officials said yesterday.

The ban would have prevented foreign-owned airlines from flying over, into or out of the New York area, including all three of its international airports, for 10 hours on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The three Washington-area airports would have been closed to overseas airlines for 2 1/2 hours. The restrictions would have also covered Shanksville, Pa., where a hijacked plane crashed on the day of the attacks.

The above only means that the U.S. can't discriminate against foreign-owned airlines...

Jake

I'm flying from Edmonton to Miami to the 13th, and then Miami to Bonaire on the 14th. I must say it makes me a little bit nervous. Not that I'm worried about my particular flights, but if something should happen on the 11th, they could cancel or majorly delay flights in the following days.

Darryl

remember the Y2K paranoia...pentagon thought the world was going to end....turned out to be much ado about nothing..

it is the knee jerk reaction by the government folks that create the cloud of fear...makes them feel important

Y2K was a 'passive' event, that was just going to happen as it would, with no one working to make trouble.

9/11 is different, with determined people behind it, people who would love to prove they can beat the security on the anniversary as they did on 9/11.

The one common thing is the media hype, not the government, that exaggerates and distorts reality, as they did leading up to Y2K. We out in the public don't know what is real except for events we can see like Kobar Towers, the African embassies, the WTC towers, the Pentagon and that hole in a field in Pennsylvania and the people who take credit for the acts. And keep trying, as in Sweden yesterday?? Hopefully this 9/11 will pass quietly.