With Thanksgiving Break past and Winter Break approaching, two of the busiest traveling seasons of the year will reflect how Americans feel in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 into a residential area in Queens, New York, which killed more than 250 people on board and on the ground.
Thanksgiving weekend showed that the airline industry has been hit hard by the tragic events,with flights and jobs being cut by the thousands.
“Right after the attacks, it was completely quiet,” said Gerd Bj