http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1540 Real Kato Comments en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:15:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ken's RSS Script http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1540 My flight out of Las Vegas is delayed, so I might miss my connection to Raleigh and have to stay in Dallas overnight. It's a good thing I scheduled a vacation day for tomorrow, but I really didn't want to spend any of it traveling. And I was really, really looking forward to sleeping at home tonight.<br/><br/>This is one of those times that I wish airline tickets were binding contracts. American Airlines, I paid money so you would get me to where I wanted, when I wanted. If you can't fulfill even get me to my destination on the <i>day</i> I asked for, you should have to pay me restitution. You should do whatever it takes to make that happen: keep extra planes stashed at airports around the country, add more required layover times, run flights later into the evening.<br/><br/>I know what the airlines say to that: "If we did that, then fares would have to go up". Well, let them go up. I'd pay extra for that peace of mind. Ken Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:14:08 +0000 http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1540