Sleeping in Airports — Episode 1: In which we introduce the subject

As the air transport system increasingly breaks down, driven by the impossibility of making a profit with sky high fuel prices that will only continue to ascend to the stratosphere, more and more people will find themselves involuntarily sleeping in airports.

Actually, that's kind of an oxymoron, isn't it?

I mean, who but a fool would voluntarily spend a night sleeping in an airport?

But I digress.

Already, the subject has inspired one recent novel, "Dear American Airlines," whose author, Jonathan Miles, "... said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago," wrote Sharon McDonnell in yesterday's New York Times in a story about the growing phenomenon.

Then there's the website called "The Budget Traveler's Guide to Sleeping in Airports," "... which lists the best (Singapore's Changi — for the past 10 years in a row) and worst (Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, "an airport in which one of our contributors witnessed seven people being killed in a gang shootout) airports to spend the night in.

Stay tuned for Episode 2.