"Rather than fight through security, not know if I'll get a seat on a flight, get bumped, it's easier to just get in my car," Mr. McCroskey said.
Travelers who buy offsets through Expedia and its partner TerraPass, a Web-based for-profit company in Menlo Park, Calif., for a medium or long-haul flight get a "Carbon Balanced Flyer" luggage tag.
A pre-ticketed traveler from, say, Hoboken, could leave the house an hour before the flight, get to the airport in a half hour, tops, and sashay to the gate for boarding with time left to buy a Snapple.
From the hard lessons I have learnt, of the emergency three responses, I would always go: 1) fight, but that's just me, and it's not always a good choice as I've highlighted; 2) flight, get as far away as you can; 3) never just freeze as this shows weakness, which they will pounce on.
Should you fall into a funk during the brief wait to speak to an agent, you might get to the desk and say, "What time does this flight get to Albuquerque?" The atmosphere in the lobby is like an upscale hotel once you reach Albuquerque.
There is the recognition that the old model of able people managing a refugee camp or helping people who are in flight get to safety and then hunkering down with them and providing shelter, water, sanitation, food, and medical relief"¦ these strategies now have to be embedded as one wing of the humanitarian community.
