My Continental flight today was delayed for 3 hours, and when I arrived at connecting Delta gate, the door was still open, plane was at the gate. I approached the agent, who ignored me, and proceeded to shut the gangway door, and ignore me again one he returned to counter. After indicating that I had a confirmed seat on the flight, he commented that “he didn’t have anymore ‘tolerance’ for this flight”. What the hell does that mean?

Little did he know that my brother was laying in the hospital dying and I was trying to get to him before he did. Because of this missed flight, and the “lack of ‘tolerance’” of this Delta agent, I probably will not. I couldn’t even find a “red coat” to complain. It’s time for alternatives.

Is there not one airline out there that is willing to step up and become a leader in the industry? If there were, I for one, would pledge my unending support and patronage above all others. The airline industry should consider the overall lack of sympathy the general public recently had for the big three automakers when they made all the wrong choices and ended up with there hats in their hands looking for handouts from Uncle Sam. I will have no sympathy for any existing airline that is facing the same fate. All I can say is “good riddance”.

Let’s all vote with our pocketbooks. We now have the incentive to reduce our travel due to the economy, lets take it further and support only those airlines who will treat us like human beings and not cattle. Let’s put the others out of business.

Maybe it is time to start researching how to build Transporters. After all, scrambling your molecules and reassembling them thousands of miles away can’t be much riskier than flying on today’s airlines. And it would be a hell of a lot faster. They might even figure out how to unscramble some eggs and put them in your stomach while in transit. Wow, a meal in transit. What a concept!