Almost 2,000 flights canceled on Sunday in the US

[moriah]

19. Remember, women here are usually groped to even get on a plane.

I only travel by air for emergencies (or in the past, work), and as a result it's always been a last-minute ticket so the SSSS thing on it.

Getting felt up or scanned by a person in a booth who potentially is putting lotion to good use already discourages many from flying if they can avoid it. And even if you get scanned, your antiperspirant might make you still have to get felt up. (It's not so much the getting felt up, but feeling your male colleagues watching another female try to do her job which involves apparently feeling you up, that's the bad part.)

So yeah, while many may be scheduling for holidays, it sucks majorly when you can't be there when someone is dying. Or for businesses, when they can't get people/parts to warehouses with dead/dying equipment. There's a reason most warehouses that stock perishables have three computers that do the job of routing the trucks to and from it -- but only two mainframes. They do NOT want those trucks sitting there on the side of the road waiting with perishables inside them.