Word: laguardias
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...Sunday after our national day of thanks, my Delta Shuttle taxis around LaGuardia Airport like a cat without a home. I can't help but overhear the conversation that a few college girls are having behind me. There is endless chatter about who had sex with the totally plastered 6'5" ubermensch last weekend. The utter joys of one of the busiest travel days in the United States...
...leave my house at 3:15 p.m. and arrive at the Marine Air Terminal of LaGuardia at 3:40 for a 4:30 flight. Normally, this would be plenty of time. I enter the terminal through the main entrance and find myself redirected to a large white tent. To my dismay, Delta is not hosting a flea market for old blankets, pillows, and peanuts or offering a circus show with tigers jumping through rings of fire for my pre-flight entertainment. I have to stand in line under this white tent just to get inside of the terminal...
Delta is surprisingly organized. Unfortunately, their organization can't make up for the rain, fog, or LaGuardia's typical chaos and congestion. I receive a green ticket, number 90, and I'm directed into a line with other spiritually and emotionally broken travelers. We all sit down like a herd of sheep, forced into a corner with nothing but concrete under our feet. "We" are mostly college kids and a few lonely professionals and grandparents...
This goes beyond the mere fact that the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers have been dissolved into one blue-and-orange unit, playing on the outskirts of Queens beneath the deafening roar of airplanes leaving LaGuardia Airport. The 2000 Mets and Yankees are both very talented and playoff-savvy teams, I grant you, but neither of them actually belongs to the City of New York...
...slots for start-ups and solid competitors at congested airports, but it must also do what it can to support new entrants. Just last week, for example, the federal government mysteriously denied Shuttle America, a new airline operating out of Hanscom Field in Bedford, the right to fly to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. This type of move not only hurts the start-up company, but also cheats consumers out of an affordable and convenient service...