Tomorrow marks 20 years since September 11th. Earlier this week, in discussions about that day, I saw someone ask: Wait… there were no baggage fees before 9/11?!?!?! Remember what air travel was like back then? The last flight I took before 9/11 was on August 2, 2001. I had a long flight to New York with my 2-year-old, Maude, and 4 year old, Ralph. I was also 8 months pregnant. Here's what happened.
As always, a terrific roundup! For many reasons, I'm sad we left Manhattan in June 2001. (We moved to the Hudson Highlands, and I'd just had our fourth baby.) We could have had our postpartum/post-9/11 breakdowns together.
I was born in 1960. My kids got tired of me pointing to the first class section as we boarded airplanes and noting that when I was a young adult the whole plane had that much legroom and that first class back then was quite special. I'm claustrophobic and my anxieties about flying kept climbing the more they constricted our space.
I tell everyone I meet to read "Project Hail Mary". The audiobook was particularly enjoyable. Also in a similar vein to the article about the donkey is a fantastic book called "Running With Sherman" (donkeys, elite athletes, mental health and Amish people! What more could you want?)
Actually baggage fees started in 2008 with maybe an airline or two in 2007. 9/11 changed flying in many many ways but it did not produce baggage fees. It did produce fear and anxiety in travel. Something that continues to this day.
As always, a terrific roundup! For many reasons, I'm sad we left Manhattan in June 2001. (We moved to the Hudson Highlands, and I'd just had our fourth baby.) We could have had our postpartum/post-9/11 breakdowns together.
I was born in 1960. My kids got tired of me pointing to the first class section as we boarded airplanes and noting that when I was a young adult the whole plane had that much legroom and that first class back then was quite special. I'm claustrophobic and my anxieties about flying kept climbing the more they constricted our space.
I tell everyone I meet to read "Project Hail Mary". The audiobook was particularly enjoyable. Also in a similar vein to the article about the donkey is a fantastic book called "Running With Sherman" (donkeys, elite athletes, mental health and Amish people! What more could you want?)
Actually baggage fees started in 2008 with maybe an airline or two in 2007. 9/11 changed flying in many many ways but it did not produce baggage fees. It did produce fear and anxiety in travel. Something that continues to this day.
I LOVED Project Hail Mary. If was fabulous.
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast has a great episode about the 9/11 memorial. It's called A Memorial for the Living. https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/a-memorial-for-the-living/