I picked one of the worst days to travel. There was an icestorm on the east coast on Tuesday night and I was supposed to fly on Wednesday morning. My Continental flight to Newark got canceled and they put me on USAirways to go to San Diego through Charlotte. Turned out that Charlotte to San Diego flight wasn’t direct and had a one hour stop in Phoenix. So, instead of arriving at my scheduled time of 11:50 am, I reached San Diego at 7:00 pm PST. Another hour after that to get my bag and find a taxi to get to my hotel. After leaving home at 4 am EST, I reached my destination after about 19 hours. It took me shorter than that to reach Mumbai last month. I am definitely convinced that महाराष्ट्र परिवहन मंडल (S.T.) runs a tighter ship than most of the airlines in the USA.