[phd514]

Maybe get out more? I know _lots_ of people for whom this is true and who take multi-day road trips rather than deal with air travel.

I routinely flew for business before 9/11 and would typically show up about 15 minutes before boarding time at one of the three busiest airports in the US and typically got through security and would then had to wait 5-7 minutes before boarding would start. Air travel is radically different than it was pre-9/11.