>Maybe it's just that I've gotten the whole airplane travel experience down >to a well honed >routine, but it just hasn't registered on my radar as so much harder to >travel that I won't >do it. Well, that's basically it, isn't it? If you are organised and prepared you can minimise a lot of the hassles in flying. It's your inexperienced and irregular fliers who get stuffed around and complain about it. Grant SYD QF