taking off from marco polo airport, typically very easy airport to navigate. they were very short staffed around the holidays and even with me getting here 2 hours early i was on track to miss my flight. luckily they decided to keep the gate open for 25 min longer due to 22 passengers that still hadn't showed up. likely due to the how insanely slow they moved this morning. after finally getting on my flight, i've been sitting here for 1 1/2 hours due to them needing to get ice off the plane, wait to turn on the engines, etc. why would this not be sorted out ahead of time?? read more