O'Hare was in th news recently. I really do not travel that much, but I now know why the article was front page news. My flight to O'Hare was delayed and then cancelled. I was rerouted through another city and arrived about 2.5 hours late. This really wasn't too bad. But my flight back was delayed so much that I would have missed the connection home. Rerouting to a different city saved me another night away from home. O'Hare still got me though as the connecting flight I was going to catch was delayed due to the traffic at O'Hare. I got home at 3am! This is 4.5 hours after I was originally scheduled. There are events that happen which add to the pressure of a somewhat overwhelmed system, but lengthy delays and especially cancellations tell me that something needs to be done.
This got me to thinking about Bottlenecks. We all run into them somewhere. On our computers, there seems to be some limiting factor that affects the overall performance of the entire system. There are steps that can be taken to minimize this in our computers. Perhaps the airlines will figure out this bottleneck too.
Antoher crazy thing about airlines that does not make much sense to me is the fare structure. I'll leave that one for another OT rant.