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Air Traffic Is A Pile Of White Dots
Is it any wonder air traffic controllers have such difficulty keeping planes from scraping each other’s bellies?
Sheraton President Blocks Off 30 Rooms For Personal Use, Your Reservation Be Damned
With this type of “No room at the inn” you would think it was the second birth of our Lord and Savior. Though, this unholy reservation, and botched reservation, earns a “Jesus Christ.”
US Airways to Sell Ads on Barf Bags
Desperate to squeeze dollars from every possible orifice, US Airways announced plans to turn air sickeness bags into revenue streams.
1970’s Iran Air Stewardess Porn
Okay, not really. Sorry to get your hopes up: the Arab world really doesn’t produce enough porn. But before they started waving scimitars in the air and crying through blood-soaked beer for jihad against the white devil, Iran was a friend of America, a peaceful country filled with polite men in plaid suits extolling the virtues of Iran Air.
Mice On A Plane
The next time you fly American Airline’s friendly skies, you might want to bring a mouse trap.
Remainders!
It’s the weekend, and time to party. Therefore, tonight’s dangling odds and ends are presented in scream format.
The News
• If you can’t have Lay, there’s always other chips to go with the fish. [CT] “Enron-related case means test for new treaty”
Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating Leads to Pandemonium
Southwest Airlines has been thinking about changing its open seating policy for assigned seating. This isn’t about convenience or altruism: rather, it’s about trying to cram as many people into a plane as quickly as possible, reducing the turn-around time between when a flight lands to when it takes off again.
Snagging Prime Dates With Frequent Flyer Miles
Like a dog trying to kiss its own reflection in a pond, using frequent flyer to fly when and where you wants can leave you wet and unsatisfied.
The Museum of Airline Puke Sacks
A thousand swollen feet suddenly uncrammed from sweaty leather sheaths, combined with lack of air flow and food that looks like it was slopped from the same steam tray into which the airline toilets empty: vomiting in an airplane is unpleasant, if perhaps unavoidable. With cramped aisles, sleeping neighbors and little leg-room, you usually don’t have time to make it to one of the small tin-closet lavatories, leaving your only recourse ballooning your cheeks, then swallowing… or the dreaded barf bag.
How Many Clicks Does It Take to Get To The Center of an Airplane?
Or, which airline has the least suckiest website? Jaunted, “The Pop Culture Travel Guide,” did a site scramble to find out.
