March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Sitting on a Tokyo runway last
week, the captain announced that our flight would be delayed for
reasons few of us could believe: sandstorms.
Chuckles filled the aircraft. The woman next to me quipped:
“What, are we in Egypt?” As we all craned our necks to look
out the windows, it really did feel as if we were taxiing in
Cairo or Marrakesh, not the capital of a Group of Seven nation.
