PremEx: (Shouldn't your first post upon returning have started "As I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself..."?) As it happens, I ran into the early bag syndrome twice last week!

"HighFlyah": I would also have thought that airlines would tell passengers the truth about delays, or that you could call a reservation number three times and get the same fares each time, or that mileage program employees would know their own rules better than the passengers do, but none of those things are true either.

Here are a couple more security loopholes:

Airport security personnel at many airports are unable to communicate with the passengers with words, and only use gestures and grunts, because the airlines don't pay the security companies enough for them to pay higher than minimum wage. (Compare with airport security in Europe, for example)

Every day, tens of thousands of airline passengers answer the security questions falsely (e.g. everyone who checks out of a hotel and uses the bell service), with no consequences for the passenger, the airline, or the idiot who wrote the questions.

[This message has been edited by RichG (edited 07-15-2001).]