August 13, 2006

Link from John

Thanks

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9672441/detail.html

here is part:


WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- Eric Eisenberg flew home to Alabama from his New England vacation Saturday out of Bradley International Airport, avoiding the crowds and larger security lines in New York and Boston.
"I'd much rather go through a small airport like this," said Eisenberg, 39, of Birmingham, who was traveling with his 3-year-old son. "I figure, A, it's just more convenient, but, B, terrorists are probably going to go to the more populated places and they aren't going to a small airport like Hartford."

Barry Pallanck, Bradley's airport administrator, acknowledges that an increased terror threat is probably not going to result in people changing tickets they have already purchased just to fly out of smaller airports. But, if new security measures remain in place for a long time, more people like Eisenberg probably will make the decision to bypass the major travel hubs for lower-hassle alternatives, he said.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Looking back at 9/11, did 2 of the terrorists not board at a small airport in Portland,ME.? Granted, they did not commit any terrorist activity on that route to Boston, but they still started their endeavour at a small airport.

I also tend to think that if a terrorist attack happens again via the airline industry that it will happen out of a major airport, but the terrorists are not stupid. They may as well think about using smaller airports.