[stinkytaco]

> If I'm a business consulting company, airlines are no longer reliable enough to ship my employees.

Is that really true? What percentage of flights do you think actually reach this level of outage? I'm not saying it can't reach that level and I don't know the tolerance of your business, but it seems like we're still talking in very small percentages here.

[Macha]

So of the 8 return flights I've taken in the last 3 years, two have had some form of luggage delay. One for 3 days, going from Dublin to Baltimore via British airways, and one for 1 day, arriving back in Ireland via American.

So in my experience, that's a 12.5% rate for major delays, and a 25% rate for any delays.

[EpicEng]

Yet in the dozens that I've taken in the last year, I've had exactly zero. I don't think either statistic reflects reality.

[smileysteve]

I wasn't referring to the outage as much as the likelihood of outages and luggage mishaps along with the need my employee has for their laptop.