Difference In Travel

Whenever there is a change in travel plans or when something goes wrong, Americans cause chaos and tend to over react to unnecessary events. Tony Horwitz talks about how when he was taking a flight out of Cairo how the pilot didn’t remember that he forgot to fill up on gas until up in the air. If an American was traveling somewhere and mid-flight the passengers found out that the pilot forgot to fill up with fuel everyone would over react and would think that something bad was going to happen, because of post September 11th. It was also interesting to hear about how unorganized the airports were with who was going on which plane, when the planes were leaving and most importantly which plane was going where. In America if people didn’t know what plane they were supposed to be on, or if they knew there was something wrong with the plane they were supposed to get on, they would simply not get on it. After September 11th most Americans have become paranoid about flying becuase they think the security is not strict enough about what people can get away with. Where as it sounds like people just do whatever they want before getting on a plane in the Middle East. -rb