Leaving Syracuse
I left Syracuse in May of 1987 as flurries fell. I missed my own graduation I was so anxious to cross the country and start my post-college life (and escape the never ending snow). I have not returned to my alma matter nor to the city which seems fortuitous since to enter the city via the airport you now need TSA authorization. According to both NBC News and the Daily Mail passengers can’t leave the arrival area at Syracuse airport without approval from the TSA. Passengers must now enter a pod and wait for the TSA to electronically authorize them to leave the terminal – from which they can’t return. Way back in the last century when I would go from Boston to Syracuse I flew the nascent airline People’s Express before Continental ate them up only to later merge with United. The flight attendants would come up and down the aisle collecting payment and all the fares were fixed and flat. (Bit of trivia: They w...