We saw that the industry was very slow in adopting increased security measures.

They have agreed in Hong Kong to tax themselves for the purpose of improving security and we should praise this and partner with these types of opportunities to take this type of system and make it an operationally more aggressive and solid tool.

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Security hurts more than it helps.

I am not aware of any warnings or notifications in advance of September 11 concerning specific security threats to any of our airlines.

We face an extraordinary threat to our national security and physical safety of the American people of a character that, at least in my lifetime, we have never faced before,