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Idaho Dad: Do you feel safer?

Posted by Cindy

Dec. 29, 2009 3:48 p.m. • 5 comments

“A friend of mine is flying from NYC to Edmonton and reports the following: “I’m disheartened though not surprised at new regulations that require we spend the entire flight from NYC to Toronto, and the last hour from Toronto to Edmonton, in our seats, without anything in our laps, not even a book; nor of being allowed to the bathroom only with escort; and to have our one carry-on bag each in the overhead compartment unavailable to us.”

Wow, not even a book? And now flight attendants will be spending the entire flight escorting people to the bathroom?

Do you feel safer?”

So, maybe I’ll take the train to Portland. How’s train travel these days?

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