Next to being an adult webmaster, i am an airline pilot (freelance) and actually as a pilot i haven't seen any drop in pax since 911. As before all the flights i do are over 90% full. Alot of airliners where in trouble prior to 911.... alot of them are also taking 911 as an excuse to fire people to get out of trouble.... the presure on the management of airliners isn't as big as before 911, now they have a reason to fire them. Anyway.... nobody should be afraid of flying, the media makes people scared to take an aricraft latelly. All those talks about making it secure by giving the pilots a gun license and let them carry one and making heavy gunproof cockpit doors is also alot of BS.... they should look at security BEFORE the aircraft (airport), thighten things up there. It's pretty pointless to do all that stuff aboard the aircraft..... and in my opinion a gun is the most dangerous thing on an aircraft, even in hands of the guys flying it. A bullit hole in the fuselage can result in decompression, dive, even the fuselage falling appart if it is at high altittude and cruising at 350 knots. But the one thing i know is this: any terror group won't target airliners anymore.... i would be more affraid to stand at the busstation waiting for the bus then to get into my office at 35.000 feet
Don't believe it guys, airliners aren't doing any different in passangers then before 911, they just play it out as an excuse... still the same pax and same money getting lost in the airline industry.... exept for one thing... now they can blame it on something else then bad management.