9/11 happened long enough ago that most people don't remember what it was like flying before all the security theater and TSA bs happened, so they don't know how nice it could be.
But if personal smartphones/tablets are banned people will riot.
They don't have to remember they just have to take a train. At least in Europe I can take a high speed train cross country carrying more people than an airplane and I can have whatever I want in my luggage.
That's specious reasoning. I have a rock that keeps tiger away. How does it work? It doesn't, it's just a stupid rock. But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
Yea they added flight deck doors that you can’t get through and a policy that the doors stay closed through a flight. The TSA did nothing to help, the planes are a hard target now.
> we have not had a plane blow up into buildings since, so something must be working
Yeah, 10 minutes after the event every person on earth now knows the best strategy is to rush the cockpit, not sit calmly and wait for the hijackers to ask for a ransom, which was the previous norm.
Between that and reinforced concrete doors flying planes into buildings is no longer a viable strategy.
But if personal smartphones/tablets are banned people will riot.