Plenty of things can go wrong on a cruise vacation. You could get seasick, or sleep through breakfast, or lose at blackjack, or puke over the rail, or god forbid be on a cruise ship that's lost power and drifting out to sea.

While the cargo doors of the aircraft were being secured, one of our baggage handlers raced up into the cockpit to advise us that they'd heard a buzzing noise coming from a suitcase. Everyone started looking around to see who the culprit was that was holding up the departure.

Upon one of the arrivals at JFK, an agent called my office to advise they had a 12-year-old unaccompanied minor, his luggage, and no parents to sign for him. After six hours, my fear was that the parents had gotten into a serious accident rendering them powerless to call.