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Originally Posted by dino7c
Partly due to a fear of flying I had never been on a plane in my entire life. In my early 20s I thought this is stupid and booked a flight to Vancouver...Sept 12th 2001 was the date of that flight lol. Needless to say I didn't get on a plane until 2006.
I fly often these days though
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I flew to Hawaii in 1987. Family spent Christmas in Hawaii... I didn't get on a plan again, mostly due to opportunities, until 2004. My wife and I went to Hawaii. We flew home on September 11. Nobody was on that flight. They told us we had enough empty seats that each passenger could claim a row to lay down and sleep if we wanted.
I've been to Hawaii another time since then, and I've been to Vegas nearly a dozen times. I've flown a lot between Lethbridge and Edmonton for meetings. No flight was as odd as being on a flight on the 3rd anniversary of 9/11. I thought nothing of it when we booked the flight. Not until I got on the flight and saw how empty it was did I think about it. Even started to second guess... did we miss some news when we were on the beach? I really was wondering if other people who weren't on that flight were scared or knew something I didn't. I was still confident it was just people being scared of retaliation on the same day, and, well, I'm here on the 20th anniversary, regaling my stories on the internet.