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Non-Tech : INVN- bomb detection company
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To: Carol Garlock who wrote (10)7/25/1996 9:52:00 PM
From: bob mackey   of 93
 
Arriving early at the airport?

> Not too long ago, you were expected to arrive at airports early
> enough to park you car, check your bags & verify your ticket...
> then run for the gate (all told maybe 30 mins. prior to scheduled
> departures.) Over the course of the last several years, that 30
> minutes has been stretched to an hour for domestic flights and
> 2 or 3 hours for international flights.

Has this really been your experience? I rarely arrive more than 20 minutes before departure at most domestic airports. Some get a little more of my time becuase of the uncertainties in getting there quickly. Dulles and Narita for example. If I'm dropping a rental car, and need a receipt, I aim for 30 minutes.

While I agree that it would be nice to make air travel safer, I believe that a million dollars spent on highway improvements will save more lives than a million dollars spent on aviation. But human nature and (therefore) the media respond more strongly to the more concentrated tragedies of plane crashes. On an *average* day in the US, 135 people die in auto accidents. Very rarely do more people die in airplanes.

Ah well, enough of the rational risk assesment sermon...
I'd like to see INVN's technology become more accessible, though its potential for privacy invasion is beyond anything we've seen before.

-bob mackey
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