Millions of people are asking: Why has flying become a game of risk, and when will the chaos end?
We’d been sitting on the tarmac in JFK for over an hour last week when the pilot announced: “I have to be honest with you that the baggage handlers have yet to load your luggage; we are very short-staffed, like everywhere else in the world right now.”
Another hour passed before the next announcement. “We just got word from Tel Aviv. Ben-Gurion is at capacity; we can’t leave Frankfurt just yet.”
Around me, people started panicking. One couple called their son in Israel.
“We’ll arrive just before Shabbat and won’t have time to cook. Please put the chicken on for an hour, and boil 13 eggs, too.”
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