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25 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 781 (2001-2002)
Re-Constructing Global Aviation in an Era of the Civil Aircraft as a Weapon of Destruction

handle is hein.journals/hjlpp25 and id is 809 raw text is: RE-CONSTRUCTING GLOBAL AVIATION IN AN ERA OF THE CIVIL AIRCRAFT AS A WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION PHMLIP A. KARBER- The attacks of September 11 have had both an immediate and a long-term impact on global aviation. In the short term we have been overwhelmed by the loss of life, the systemic disruption of flying, and the international war on terrorism. But there is also a delayed impact, like that of a Jurassic meteor strike, in which the long-term impact was not a function of the local devastation but a changed environment, one that slowly starved out even the largest of species. We are witnessing a second order effect: an industrial Armageddon,' with traffic cut from 9 to 7.5 million passengers a week,2 airline revenue * This Article is dedicated to the memory of Neal Levin, Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who was lost in the attack on the World Trade Center. With great insight into the future needs of global aviation and a refreshing willingness to tackle them under conditions of duress, he should have been the author of this Article and his leadership will be badly missed. ** Senior Fellow, Potomac Foundation; Chairman, JFK-IAT (the consortium selected to rebuild and operate the International Air Terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport). As former Director of the Center for Technology and Public Policy of the BDM Corporation, he has participated in a variety of research programs on terrorism over the last thirty years. In the early 1980s, Karber served as Strategy Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Several people provided invaluable assistance in the preparation of this Article: Professor Anthony Clark Arend, Georgetown University; Sam Fairchild and George Novak, from the Global Transportation Group, PA Consulting; Jim Johnson, of Barbour, Griffith & Rogers; Robert S. Norris, Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harro Ranter, responsible for the hijacking database at the Aviation Safety Network. However, the author alone is responsible for content and conclusions. 1. US Airlines Face Financial Armageddon, AIR TRANSPORT WORLD: NEWS & COMMENTS, Sept. 17, 2001, at http://atw.atwonline.com/archives/news/archive newssept1701.cfm. 2. Joe Sharkey, Business Travel, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 28, 2001, at C6 (explaining that for the month following the September 11 attacks, U.S. domestic airline traffic was off by 22%, and the number of people flying internationally on domestic airlines fell 31% in October).

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