<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I think the dissatisfaction with airlines is due in part (a great part in my case) to the problems/hassles in the time between leaving home and having the plane lift off ...</font>
trian, what do you base this on? I think you posted this before, and I agreed with you at the time. But at that time I had only flown about 6 times since 9/11. Now that I've taken about 12 flights, I tend to disagree. Now my expectation is that from stepping out of my car at the airport (YYZ) to being in the MLL (or at the gate) is about 20 minutes. At MIA, it's typically under 10 minutes. That's not bad - I don't really find that too much of a hassle.