As much as I fly nowadays -- which isn't a lot, but is more than I ever thought possible -- I can't say that I've spent a ton of time waiting on delayed flights. Oh, sure, there was that eight hour Sunday afternoon in Charlotte, but it was fine because Charlotte has these cool rocking chairs all over the place. But they didn't have real silverware at the restaurants -- I can get a real knife on a plane now, as long as as I get bumped to first class, but I can't get one at the Charlotte ESPNzone?
But I digress ... as I was saying, flight delays haven't bitten me in the ass all that much. When the inevitable happens (scheduled for right after I hit "publish post") I won't believe the gate agents when they blame "weather" on the delays, even though it's -WTF° Fahrenheit outside.
The real reason we have so many delays is listed right here:
[T]here is an absolute limit to the number of airplanes any runway can handle, per hour, even in perfect weather. At an absolute minimum that limit should be enforced -- by rule and regulation -- for every commercial airport in the country. Currently it is not and -- unbelievably -- airlines are allowed to schedule more flights than the runways can handle in even perfect weather. It is madness.
If you fly commercially a lot, or just find the subject fascinating (that's me on both counts), you could waste hours on that site.
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