On my way out of Calgary on Wednesday, I experienced my first aborted takeoff. We were popping down the runway at 100+? miles an hour when all of a sudden I get jerked forward and for what seemed like a long time the pilot was standing on the brakes (ie we were going fast and it took a while to get slowed down). Once we got down to a nice coasting speed, he reports that "as you noticed we decided to abort takeoff, as there was another plane still on the runway--he was supposed to have exited earlier but missed his turn. Needless to say this is not a usual occurrence."

This was a little disconcerting and I am wondering who is at fault, air control, ground control, our pilot, the other pilot or all of the above?

Anyone else had close calls--and was there any danger pay (i.e. more miles or other compensation--this way it is not OMNI Catman)? Suppose I should feel glad that there was no major consequence but even for a very frequent flier, this was a bit disconcerting.