Air travel is miserable at the best of times: crazy passengers, crazy staff, crazy weather causing crazy delays, and now some crazy would-be terrorist tries to blow himself up on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The guy shouldn’t have been allowed on the plane in the first place, yet now countless travellers will suffer extremely inconvenient extra security measures.
Throw into that the rubbery eggs and anaemic sausages you get for breakfast, and I feel particularly glad to be remaining on terra firma this holiday season.
Update: The Economist’s “Gulliver” on why the new security measures are insane (via our London correspondent, Andrew Potter).
