Delays are inevitable if you travel—by car, bus, train, or (infamously) by plane. Nobody wants to get delayed, and nobody is actively plotting to delay you. Yet here we are, playing the domino game of disrupted plans, where one toppled tile can send your entire itinerary crashing down.
Take my recent trip to Fiji, for instance. Departure time? 8 a.m. Translation: a 4 a.m. wake-up, ensuring you arrive at the airport bleary-eyed but hopeful. Everything's going as planned, right up until the dreaded announcement: “Flight FJ104 to Nadi has been delayed due to a mechanical issue.”
Now, if they'd told us it was because the pilot slept in, or there weren't enough chicken-or-beef options to go around, or, God forbid, the in-flight entertainment hadn't been updated since 2012, I could've…