1.  And because nearly all of those people are arriving or leaving, rather than changing planes, traffic on the land side of the terminal is heavy.

2.  Being flexible about which airport, or changing planes, can help, too.

3.  Changing planes instead of going nonstop can also help at busy times, said Richard Metzner, a vice president for marketing at Continental.

4.  He was changing planes in Denver last Saturday when it happened.

5.  It was because of changing planes in Dallas, specifically the time a woman stuffed a boom box with steer horns on top in the overhead compartment.

6.  More time for changing planes, for everything.

7.  On top of that, most airline traffic at National is domestic, with few people changing planes.

8.  People who study airport retailing say the best-performing strips are in hub airports, where lots of passengers are changing planes and are thus forced to linger.

9.  So what if not changing planes involved exiting in Washington into a rush of hot gasoline fumes.

10.  Tack that onto the Olympic break and everyone would have gotten the chance to play in the Olympics without changing planes in the middle of the night.