Legal Commentary

What If You Didn't Have to Fly?

By Jeralyn

The New York Times reports some first-hand experiences this week on the world's new virtual battlefield: Airport security.

Will you fly, if you don't have to for work?

I gave it up in January, 2008 after the Iowa caucuses. With one exception in 2008 and two in 2009, I have gone from someone who for years flew somewhere every ten days, sometimes more, to someone who just said "Enough" with the waste of time and the hassle. (I think it was the "arrive at the airport 2 hours before your flight" and having to get your bags to the check-in counter 45 minutes before the flight, as well as the constant lifting of the carry-on bag to get the laptop out at screening and then packing it back in again and remembering the noise-canceling headphones and money spent unnecessarily on magazines and bottles of water and lousy food and always having my arms full, that pushed me over the top.)

And that was before all these new measures. I have no flights planned for 2010. I'm going to try to get through the year without taking any.

How about you? How much time waste and physical inconvenience are you willing to put up with?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).