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  • I decided to check my small suitcase. It will fit in the overhead bin, but I didn’t want to deal with any more inspections than I had to.<\/p>\n
  • Walking along the 6th floor parapet, overlooking the 5th floor security areas, I could see the added walls they’re putting up around the security checkpoints, and enough switchbacking line barriers to warm the cockles of Walt Disney.<\/p>\n
  • I did try the A-bridge security point, and it’s definitely the way to go. There was even a DIA Guest Services guy there handing out candy.<\/p>\n
  • Corkscrews are not allowed. Now, I wasn’t dumb. I did not have a corkscrew that had a little knife. Makes no difference. Corkscrews are not allowed. I’m not sure what I could do with the corkscrew I had in my briefcase that I couldn’t do with, say, a pen, but … well, my corkscrew got donated to the Checkpoint A Contraband Box. It was either that or go back and check it. Sh’yeah, right.<\/p>\n
  • Things were deserted. Weekend travel, based on our experience on the Orlando trip, is still heavy. Weekday business travel? Chirping crickets and tumbling tumbleweeds in the aisles.<\/p>\n
  • On the train, heard a woman joking about how careful she was to not be carrying anything metal, only to be caught in the metal detector by her underwire ….<\/p>\n
  • Sometime between when we left for Orlando and when we got back, Delta, at least, started a secondary security screen at the gate. Random names are called, and any carry-on they have is hand-searched. At DIA, they’re doing it in the space behind the big gate counter display. <\/p>\n
  • On my second leg, Cincinnati to Philly, the little drop-down LCD screens were showing the “Delta Navigator,” which basically has fight information (Altitude 30,000′; Speed Mach 0.76; Outside Temp -46F) and a cool graphic showing the plane moving across the map at various scales. And then I saw the plane, and Washington, DC, and New York City. And the graphic reminded me of way too many newscasts. And for the first time in my flying since 9-11, I felt a little chill down my spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I decided to check my small suitcase. It will fit in the overhead bin, but I didn’t want to deal with any more inspections than I had to. 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