The R's have keep Congress in session via the farce of keeping one clown in DC to gavel in 1 minute sessions each day. No recess = no recess appointments. Thanks for playing.

Airlines would go out of business very rapidly if they weren't running at near capacity and with overbooking. If passenger demand goes down, they attempt to minimize the bleeding by simply scheduling fewer flights or cancelling flights that check in under the magic number that makes them profitable. (Happens routinely if you're flying into/out of an out of the way airport.)

They will still feel the pressure of reduced demand though - idling expensive assets eliminates the fuel cost, but they still need to pay off the airplane capital cost.

Not a developer and certainly not a SAP consultant. But I did live through implementation of SAP at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. For all practical purposes, the CEO bet the company by committing us to implementing SAP. The project cost was something like $3e8 in a company with sales of about $3e9. You spend that kind of cash, you bloody well better recover it in improved profitability.

Politically, with those kinds of stakes, the project is going to succeed. If it isn't a success, reality will be adjusted to make it a success. The only people getting fired in an SAP implementation are those stupid enough to say that it isn't succeeding.

And how exactly is a bomb smuggled on board going to enable a terrorist to commandeer a plane and crash it into something?

The sky above the port was the color of a Sony Aquos HDTV, tuned to a dead channel.

[Inigo Montoya] I do not think that means what you think it means. [/Inigo Montoya]

And that just great until we run out of witches. Doesn't anyone think these things through? It's not scalable.