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Effects Of 9/11

Meredith Haggerty, Kelly McCloskey, Connor Diday


Mr. Wojewodzki

Honors Human Geography

September 9, 2010

How Did 9-11 Effect Air Travel Internationally?

The tragedy on September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington D.C. had a major effect on air travel internationally in multiple different ways. The terrorist attacks forced the U.S. rethink their airline security procedures; limit the amount of Visas distributed, and slightly rebuild their economy.

Even after the major terrorist attack, there were still many terrorist plots towards the U.S. that were uncovered through the new airline security. (airtravel.about.com). There have been many new restrictions and rules with air travel. Certain people are screened and put through an extreme amount of security due to their ethnicity or clothing. Also, VWP (Visa Waiver Program) people had to face less security then people without VWP. (dhs.gov). But, every time a terrorist plot is found by the U.S., air travel security becomes more vigilant. (airtravel.about.com).

The Visa Waiver Program gave out a scarce amount of Visa cards after 9/11. But, that didn’t stop non-VWP people from wanting to come to the U.S. Research shows that the same amount of VWP people and non-VWP people entered the U.S after the terrorist attack, even though airline security had become more intense. (dhs.gov).

When you think about it, 9/11 damaged our economy. The attack destroyed the world trade center, which is the business and trade icon of the U.S. Also, an hour or so after 9/11, all airplanes were told to land immediately and all airports were shut down for a whole week. Meaning, our travel income from other countries was put to a halt for a whole week. $22 billion out of $246 billion are from air travel to and from other countries.). That means, for that entire week approximately $600 million was lost because air traffic was not permitted. The havoc caused by 9/11 made air travel “less safe,” which caused less people to use air travel which dropped our income from $246 billion to $198 billion. Within that week, the U.S. lost about $50.6 billion in air travel income. Plus, the amount of money lost from the World Trade Center being demolished and the Pentagon being severely damaged. The U.S. not only had a damaged economy because of the terrorist attack, but we also lost thousands of people and jobs. In all, the U.S. spends $704 billion on traveling, which means 30% of our economy relies on business travel. After the attack of 9/11, in 2002 everything economic dropped by at LEAST 5%, on business travel alone we lost $22 billion.
As you can see, the tragedy on September 11th, 2001, affected the U.S. deeply in a multitude of ways. U.S. did it’s best to recover from the incident, but our country will never be the same as it was before.

This graph shows you how many flights are flown to and from the US annually. From 2001 to 2003, there was a lot less flights coming to the US which makes us wonder if the attacks had anything to do with that, which is most likely a yes.

This graph also shows the number of flights coming to the US annually. At 2001, notice the major drop in the line. Little by little we are getting back to normal amount of flights before 9/11, but nine years later and we are still not there yet.

This is a photograph of all of the flights that were in the sky during the first attack on 9/11 towards the Twin Towers in New York City. All of these planes had to find the nearest airport and land there. No plane's were allowed in the sky in the US for at least a week after the 9/11 attacks.

This graph shows how much of a profit each major airline made annually before and after 9/11. As you can see, airlines were gaining a lot more money before the attacks, and actually losing money after.

Works Cited


• "Air Traffic: NextGen Briefng." 21 Sept. 2009. Web. 5 Sept. 2010. <http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/briefing/>.

• Cornwell, Derehk. "The 9/11 Terrorist Attack and Overseas Travel to the United States: Initial Impacts and Longer-Run Recovery." Web. 8 Sept. 2010. <http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ni_911_wp.pdf>.

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