Rod, could you please add a disclaimer

I strongly believe that airlines should be forbidden from overbooking flights -- even if that means higher ticket prices for all of us. I strongly believe that airlines should be forced to have contingency plans in place for stranded passengers (food reserves, cots, blankets, pillows) -- even if that means higher ticket prices for all of us. And it's beyond obvious that the FAA needs to get its act together with the air traffic control system -- even if that means higher ticket prices for all of us.

Rod, could you please add a disclaimer that your round-trip ticket from Dallas to Istanbul was paid for by someone else--either the event organizers, or charged to the Belo expense account? Unless you made the journey out of your own savings, any cri de coeur demanding "higher ticket prices for all of us" should be either qualified thusly or rephrased as "higher ticket prices for others."

Context.