I’m off for St. Louis today, my flight leaves at 11:30 and I arrive there at 20:55. I’m excited to see somewhere new, but I’m slowly going mad waiting for the flight. Whenever I fly, or take any mode of transportation that requires buying ticket, I’m always forced into a state of mental limbo the day before. This state isn’t impatience, I can wait patiently, this has more to do with the time spent between arrival at “ready” and the actual go time: the set time. If I were driving, the set time is a matter of minutes, an hour or two tops. When I’m flying the set time can be 12 hours or more. When you’re in the blocks for 12 hours, everything seems to go to limbo. Blerg.
Also, when will we ever have paperless boarding passes?
I guess this is where an ID chip would come in handy, or a barcode on the back of our necks. Your boarding pass is you ID, you get scanned and the computer brings up whether your have a ticket or not. I can see a lot of problems arising from this system, though, so at least a paper ticket is physical proof that you should be on a particular flight.