Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Well,  I _have_,  though.  It's gone from "probably not"
to "no way in
 RJT> hell"!

 MK> That is a change in attitude then.  But is that because of 9/11 or
 MK> "enhanced" security?

Mostly the latter,  I think.

 RJT> Not just sharing private planes,  but also sharing charter flights.
 RJT> From what I've seen,  I'd say it's pretty widespread.  But hey,  that's
 RJT> the market reacting to what it perceives as less than tolerable
 RJT> conditions...

 MK> I forgot about that element but now that you mention it that 
 MK> definetly was mentioned.  The line was to avoid the "enhanced" 
 MK> security and the delays it caused.  Time is money, yadda, yadda, 
 MK> yadda.

Just so.

 RJT> I used to think it was bad enough that they told you to show up 
 RJT> at the airport an hour before flight time,  now they're saying 
 RJT> three hours?!

 MK> Or more but that's definetly a major complaint.  There was talk 
 MK> about some preapproved card, or something like that, whereby 
 MK> presentation would permit bypassing all the hassel.  I don't know
 MK> what happened with that.

I remember that.  Like lots of other ideas,  it's subject to abuse,  and to
corruption.  And maybe it wasn't seriously a proposal,  but more of a trial
balloon,  like so much other stuff.

 RJT> It'd be no surprise to me at all to find that both business travelers
 RJT> and tourists are actively using alternatives and that _this_ is why the
 RJT> airlines are in trouble.

 MK> Probably.

The free market at work,  yeah.

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