The Afterlife of the Northeast Shuttles

It's the mid-1990s at Washington National Airport. An unassuming, bespectacled guy in a trench coat ambles up to the USAir Shuttle counter. The agent is singularly unimpressed. The would-be rider wants on the next flight, leaving now. She says no and sends him down the hall to the Delta Shuttle...

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