New Air-Travel Guidelines

American Voices

September 29, 2006 | ISSUE 42•39

U.S. airlines are now allowing small quantities of fluids onto airplanes. What do you think?

Thank God. I don't think I'd be able to make one more flight from New York to Chicago with a mouthful of shampoo.

Elaine Siegel
Sales Representative
The ban was a necessary precaution. We have to be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices if we're going to prevent scientifically impossible terrorist attacks.

Alex Hunter
Surveyor
By giving passengers renewed access to these gels, lotions, and shampoos, we run the risk of creating a very dangerous, highly evasive, and super-slippery terrorist able to avoid all manners of restraint.

Ed Johansen
Systems Analyst

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