The critical sentence in the article is:
Among those who have flown since Sept. 11, 91 percent feel air travel is safe.
The problem is not with the pax that
are flying; it's with the pax that
are not flying.
I'd suspect that a survey of passengers who flew before the 9th September and have not flown since would come up with
completely different results.
The problem is that until
they start to travel again, the US industry will remain in crisis.