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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 8:24 am
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Few who fly — or fly coach, anyway — would disagree that the entire experience of air travel from check-in to landing carries with it an overwhelming sense that everyone involved has simply given up. Watch people as they enter airports: shoulders rise, expressions grow steely, civility erodes. Things that shouldn’t be a big deal — learning that you’ll have an on-time departure or receiving a free bag of potato chips — feel like winning lottery tickets, so low have our expectations become.

Now that we’re entering the thick of the holiday travel season and we’ve been groped, scanned, forced to eat a Cinnabon and otherwise made to suffer the slings and arrows of air travel — here’s something rarely offered of late: a positive story about airports.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...n/?ref=opinion
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