Any extra security on the plane at BWI?

[encinc]

I'm full of questions tonight!

We're looking at a flight with a stop (but no change of planes) in Baltimore. I remember hearing sometime after 9/11 that there was extra security on all flights that land at Washington and New York area airports. Is that still the case? Just wondering what to expect with a stop at BWI.

 

[bavaria]

I'm not quite sure to which you are referring. I have flown in/out of all three DC area airports and all three NYC area airports since a few days after 9/11, many times a year.

While there may have been adjustments to flight paths in the early months for some airports, nothing would impact a passenger who is landing on a flight and continuing on that same aircraft (that sounds like your situation). There were also restrictions as to staying in your seat in the last 30 minutes of the flight but that too has changed, although MOST flights now have the seatbelt sign turned on at that point landing at most airports.

Nor is there anything which would impact any other traveller at IAD, BWI or DCA which is not in place in any other major airport in the US

 

[encinc]

I'm not quite sure to which you are referring. I have flown in/out of all three DC area airports and all three NYC area airports since a few days after 9/11, many times a year.

While there may have been adjustments to flight paths in the early months for some airports, nothing would impact a passenger who is landing on a flight and continuing on that same aircraft (that sounds like your situation). There were also restrictions as to staying in your seat in the last 30 minutes of the flight but that too has changed, although MOST flights now have the seatbelt sign turned on at that point landing at most airports.

Nor is there anything which would impact any other traveller at IAD, BWI or DCA which is not in place in any other major airport in the US

Thanks for the reassurance! I think it was the restriction about staying in your seat that I was remembering. But, you're absolutely right, the seatbelt sign is usually turned on by that point, so it wouldn't make any difference.

 

[TDC Nala]

Thanks for the reassurance! I think it was the restriction about staying in your seat that I was remembering. But, you're absolutely right, the seatbelt sign is usually turned on by that point, so it wouldn't make any difference.

That applied only to flights in and out of DCA (Reagan National). And it was discontinued some time ago.

 

[DebbieB]

I flew into DCA and BWI within the past year and there was no extra security. The rule used to be you could not get out of your seat for any reason in the first or last 30 minutes of a flight in or out of DCA but as TDC Nala said, that was discontinued.

 

[safetymom]

There are undercover air marshalls on a lot of flights but the rule about staying in your seat is no longer in force.