That's because it flies relatively slowly, and it needs extra airspace when there's a large jet in front of it.
The more you have, the more you can swipe your gold card into submission, so whenever I fly in I go to the city's tiny Linate airport because the low-cost airline, Go, flies there for under £100 and it is 25 minutes in a cab from the city centre.
In South Carolina this week, nearly 50,000 people marched to the state capitol to demand that the Confederate flag which flies there be taken down because it is a symbol of slavery.
There's no point in looking at Southwest if you want to fly to Charleston, WV, Pittsburgh, or Shreveport, for example, because it doesn't fly there or anywhere close.
It had flown there since 1978.
And for every TSA official, tear in eye, who explains he does his job because "his kids fly", there's no mention of the discrimination that occurs at our nation's airports.
It used to be exciting to fly there because the airport's runway was so short that planes had to brake very hard to avoid running off the end and down a cliff into the sea.
"It's like 45 minutes to fly there from Joburg.
It was something a bit like the inauguration of a president, and they were being flown there because--as the dirtiest things--they were, according to irresistible Indian logic, the most lucky and most auspicious, and therefore required for the ceremony.
"Managing air traffic in and around New York is challenging because so many aircraft want to fly there and the airports are so close together," David Grizzle, the F.A.A.'s air traffic chief operating officer, said in a statement.
