UPDATE: Oh yes... pursuant to the earlier-mentioned observations on airlines cancelling their in-flight meals as a cost-cutting measure and letting the airport concessions take up the slack (a trend the market seems well-poised to support), I have to note that America West's "pay on board" food service, where you order from a menu of pre-made meals and pay $5-7, is friggin awesome for airline food. Hot roast beef sandwich with fontina cheese, a bag of potato chips, and a gargantuan cookie, just as an example of something I liked so much I skipped eating in the airport so as to order it on two separate legs of the trip. It's a far cry from the turkey-slice-and-Dijonnaise-on-a-dinner-roll-and-a-minute-scrawny-apple-and-water-in-a-little-plastic-tub that passes for a "meal" on some airlines these days...

UPDATE: I rather regret posting this; much of it really isn't fair, especially considering how good a time I had this past week, on the whole. I'm not in the habit of deleting things, so... I guess it would be best for everybody who's, um, already read this post to just sort of erase it from your neurons, or something.