At Boston's Logan Airport, baggage screeners and other workers paused at 8:46 a.m. for a moment of silence to mark the time the first plane struck the twin towers. Both planes that hit the World Trade Center took off from Boston.
One man traveling to Atlanta and Florida for business wore an American flag shirt. A nurse flying home to Montreal arrived more than three hours early for her flight, anticipating heavy security.Some Americans who are flying today are doing so because they have no choice.
In Los Angeles a woman flying home to Virginia booked the latest flight possible, in the belief that it would minimize her chances of falling victim to a terrorist attack. Kim Pinney says, "If something was going to happen, it would happen during the day and then it would be over."
Others are determined to appear unfazed by the threat of terrorism.
A Canadian man flying from Boston to Miami says he knows people who would "wince" when they hear he's traveling on 9/11. But he says he's not going to be deterred.
