Especially in the case of passenger transportation, it often leads to excessive passenger ride times as well.
Initially, I resented this routine: crabby bus drivers; occasionally menacing-seeming passengers; the excessive lurching.
He said yesterday a weakened version, requiring airlines to submit a plan to regulators to allow passengers off after "excessive delays," appeared headed for inclusion in the bill.
The two countries must "comply with European Union rules against excessive track access charges for passenger and freight trains in the channel tunnel," the commission, the bloc's administrative arm, said in a statement.
The latter must also take passenger flows into account in scheduling runs: the headway between two consecutive runs must be long enough for passenger numbers to accumulate, but not too long, because an excessive waiting period would put off some passengers.
Another airline says that so far this year, excessive security delays have caused 70,000 passengers and 40,000 checked bags to miss their flights.
The regulator, the Competition Commission, has been investigating whether the poor service, excessive airline charges and delays that passengers face have been caused or worsened by BAA's lack of investment in the major facilities it controls around London.
If it's not lost luggage, then it's surly flight attendants, excessive fees or plane loads of passengers stuck on the tarmac for hours without food or water.
Another passenger, Thomas Gort, showed her excessive attention.
Some flight crews have been criticized for taking action against unruly passengers that's perceived as excessive, while others have been criticized for not protecting travelers from other passengers who are unruly or abusive.
