Since your original check-in will check your luggage thru and you would not go to the check-in desk but directly to the next gate having been issued boarding passes at the point of origin, if that has not changed, you will have time. However, you might want to check with the airlines to be sure!

I'll be honest, I don't think its safe to fly other than the odds are in your favor. What are the odds that your plane will be either hijacked or bombed? <BR>Don't be fooled, that is really all the security that travlers have. The airlines are NOT checking most check-in baggage for explosives. The airlines have hired the cheapest minimum wage workers to be security and have no idea who is actaully handeling passengers luggage . Both types of these same workers steal all the time from the same travelers that they are suppose to protect. Does this sound like responsible, caring people? The screening process at the x-ray machines are a joke, anyone could easily pass a hardened plastic weapon through the xray machine. Anyway, its already been proven many times that they still can't even stop box cutters from passing through. What is this "checking your ID" thing that their doing? Last time I checked a 16 year old could get a fake ID. The only thing that putting air marshalls on flights or having the passengers take the law into their own hands is going to do, is make the terrorist more desperate and willing to take drastic and more violent actions to prevail. The security that has been "increased" is all a "put-on", A big show, and most people are buying it. The FAA wasn't serious about your safety before, and still isn't. Its just trying to make everything look good. Thats it. If you ever want to have secure air travel I urge you to write to your congressman and urge that all airport and aircraft security be handled by a different agency than the FAA. This is vital. Hopefully the FBI has been able to either round up these terrorist Bozos or at least have them on the run. Would I fly? Sure, the odds are in my favor - but that is all I'm counting on.

I used to worry about every little jiggle and dip. Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I was in a 707 that hit a major down draft before and a serious storm over Colombia. We came close to crashing into the mountains surrounding Bogota. <BR> <BR>Two weeks ago, we flew to Las Vegas as a consulation for a canceled trip to Turkey following 911. BTW, my neighbor's son-in-law was at the top of the towers on 911. <BR> <BR>All my petty worries about flying evaporated. They now seem so trivial. I have never felt more comfortable flying. We'll be flying down to NC for Thanksgiving and to the Carribean in December.

Statistically you're much, much more likely to be killed driving your car than from a terroristic event - thousands and thousands die each year on our roads. I remember once seeing the statistic that in the USA, more people are killed by farm animals like pigs than are killed by sharks. But sharks have a scare factor, as do terrorist acts. Life is all about perception, what you perceive it to be, it will be.