Airports are often the key to on-time travel.
If your destination or departure airport is having problems, forget it. Forewarned is forearmed, and you can find out about the status of your departure and arrival airports at a new Federal Aviation Administration site. On the day we tried it, every airport on the map was doing just dandy, which probably means the site was not working properly. Of course not. Although McMahon is hardly from the digital generation, he's gotten Net.savvy.