Driving home last night, I listened to Tom Ashbrook describe the state of air travel -and it wasn't good. Lost luggage, poor service, random bag checks, long delays, shortened leg-room. And, his experts warned, things will get much worse in the next decade.

Then, this morning, this caught my eye.

JetBlue Airways is offering a bonus to fliers on Thanksgiving Day -- a free beer to accompany football games on its seat-back satellite TVs. The National Football League's Miami Dolphins-Detroit Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Dallas Cowboys games will be among the programming on 36 channels of DirecTV that JetBlue offers for free.

That almost makes you want to fly on Thanksgiving Day.