Byline: DAVID GOETZL The following headline.

Byline: DAVID GOETZL

The following headline, ``Air marshal aimed fire-arm in Delta cabin,'' came across cnncom in late August. A year ago, it would have been a onset These days the shock value, sadly, is all however gone.

From the National Guard in airports to having to make progress barefoot to clear security, flying has been transformed. in this way have the major airlines' bottom lines.

But it is not merely lingering fear ...