What was air travel like before 9-11?
>>2840574In the US? Way, way, way more relaxed. It's gotten better since Obama was elected and especially since the destruction of ISIS, but I don't think it will ever be as easy going as it was before.
just metal detectors and I think taking keys and metal out of your pocket and putting it in a bin and having that inspectedit was a lot less formal and strict and I miss itand not being able to bring water on a flight is ridiculous and harmful and should never have existed as a policy for this long and I am convinced only exists to sell more alcohol on flights.
I don't know about before, but I do remember shortly after.For some time, they did not allow anything that was the least bit sharp. Not even cartridge razors and nail clippers.Not only is this no longer the case, nowadays you can even find TSA-approved scissors and knives. But there was this brief moment in time where they were a lot more restrictive.
>>2840574the only real difference is you didn't have to take your shoes off or separate your laptop. also people (family) would hang out at the gate for departures and arrivals so it was more crowded. that's actually the one nice change. now you just have passengers.
You used to be able to go the gate with folks.
>>2840619hole upyou could bring water and there wasn't weird rules for liquids humans don't last very long without waterdenying water to passengers is crueland just overall there wasn't the "TSA" and it was less strict
>>2840619>or separate your laptophow many people were really carrying around laptops in 2001?
>>2840630I got my first laptop as a teen in 2003, and business travelers and college students had them before then.
>>2840574Security was basically a metal detector and they might glance inside your bag real quick. They didn’t even x-ray the carryons. Checked bags might be looked through real quick maybe x-rayed if the airport was bigger.
>>2840574Like riding a bus in the sky. You could see straight into the cockpit from the passenger seat. Kids were allowed to visit the pilots
>>2840619>take your shoes offAlways thought that was some movie shit or maybe you had to do that only for some random checks since I'd never seen it as a European. Crazy that Americans put up with that for 20 years.
>>2840630they were already common by the mid 90s
It was common to invite kids to see the cockpit during the flight. Glad I'm old enough to have experienced that.
>>2840995Oh yeah I remember that scene in Airplane. Back in the day you could go up to the cockpit and the pilot would offer to show you what a grown man looked like naked
>>2840574Being zenphobic is being a survivalist.
I tried flying back from Disneyworld with a pirate blunderbuss from the gift shop. Security tried to take it, I cried, they let me have it back.Also family who wasn't traveling could go with you right up to the gate.
>>2841306My favourite part about 9/11 was the fact that Larry Silverstein, the owner along with his son coincidentally took the day off on the day of the attacks. And then tried to get double the insurance cashout for each plane that hit. Oh well, Israel is our GREATEST ALLY.
>>2840598you can buy a waterbottle after you go throught tsa and bring it on the plane anon
>>2841319>And then tried to get double the insurance cashout for each plane that hit. Oh well, Israel is our GREATEST ALLY.they did get paid twice, they claimed the first plane was one terrorist attack and the second plane was a second terrorist attack and got like 4 billion dollars instead of 2
>>2841328the shamelessness is kinda impressive
>>2841319>>2841328Do you have a source for that other than a twitter screenshot you saw on /pol/?
>>2841306>radical muslimLol. Why does this guy make /pol/cels seethe so much? Why do you hate affordable housing and childcare?
>>2841592why not just hand over governance to China? respecting local culture is important, and 'radical islam' is a tautology.
>>2840574It was way better before radical Islam showed up, just like everything else.
>>2840964oh yeah, you better buy fresh socks too to not embarass yourself
