Air time travel: When delays become a design problem

Time is everything when you’re making your flight. But do airlines always see it that way?

When you’re in the airport, two times hover at the front of your brain, the part probably reserved in pre-civilized times for “home” and “water source” — the boarding time and the departure time. As passengers, we assume these times are fixed, especially the departure time. There’s a word for what happens when the departure time changes: delay. But what happens when airlines don’t see that…