Why Is JFK Airport So Awful?

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I have a question for anybody out there who might know. Who do you think is responsible for the following scenario?

After a 6-hour flight from Los Angeles, you arrive at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport at 11:42 p.m. EDT, only a few minutes later than your scheduled arrival time. You would have arrived earlier, but the usual nonsense over New York City required the usual half hour of circling before your plane was permitted to land.

You then sit on the tarmac for 15 minutes somewhere in the middle of Queens while somebody someplace figures out where to stash your plane. The aircraft then taxis to the gate at the gigantic, sprawling new American Airlines (a unit of AMR(AMR Quote)) terminal ... and taxis and taxis and taxis. You are in effect driving across half of Queens. You stop several times and the plane just sits there. It is now nearly midnight.

Finally, almost half an hour after you have landed, you arrive near the gate. The captain makes an announcement to the effect that you have stopped short of your destination by the length of a football field because there are a lot of aircraft in the way of your gate. He seems befuddled by this, but you wonder why, because this is not the first nor even the second time this has happened, at least the stopping short part. After another 10 or 15 minutes, the plane rolls to the gangway ... and just sits there. The doors do not open. Nobody is there to let you off the plane.