re: What was air travel like before 9/11?

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Pretty much. And family members/friends could wait at the gate for you to arrive or say goodbye at the gate.

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Yep. I worked in the Shreveport airport in the year 2000. As an airline employee we would conduct security checks where we would try to get fake weapons through security. I used to get guns, knives, and even a grenade through in my sock. I also could take naps on the baggage belt in the back between flights. To say the security was lax would be a huge understatement.