Air Traffic Control Sucks And So Does Virgin Atlantic

I missed my flight home to SFO. My flight from Brussels was about 50 minutes late because of technical difficulties and the air traffic. And when you get to Heathrow and make a stink about queuing because you are late for your flight, you get through the terminal pretty fast, but you can't stop Virgin Atlantic from their automatic computer shutdown 1 hour before your flight. Thus, you are screwed. They hapilly routed me to LA and said I was on my own from there. It's a long walk to Newark from LA, so I have to spring for a Southwest flight.