Hamilton Nolan: Dispatches from India, Sept 30-Oct 2

Travel unfortunately always involves airlines, unless you were smart enough not to involve an airline in your trip. Airlines involve waiting. For all of the high prices and uncomfortable security procedures we endure to fly, and all of the engineering marvels it takes to simply make something fly in the first place, no one has yet figured out how not to make us, the flying public, wait and wait and wait.