His original missive to the San Francisco Chronicle contained only 53 words. He's really riding high. Chris Chiames of the Air Transport Association, a national group that represents commercial airlines, said passengers at LAX Thursday were boarding planes almost in defiance of the bomber. All of us are victims. But people are not allowing this person to disrupt their plans.
Flights are full.
The airport is very crowded. There are some long lines at peak periods, but everything is going very smoothly. Federal authorities ordered extraordinary precautions Wednesday after the bomber's warning. A federal task force investigating the Unabomber, who authorities believe lives in Northern California, quickly concluded that the letter was authentic and within hours arranged for beefed-up security at airports across the state. Postal authorities stopped transporting packages weighing 12 ounces or more by plane out of California.