Close to Home by John McPherson for August 21, 2014

United Airlines does this now

Delta does it and charges for it.

Bungees are bad until landing.

Rack-em and stack-em.

Try Fifth Element style: overbookings fit in the overhead compartments using the bungees!

Hold on, passengers, we’re about to experience some turbulence!

Bungee corded passengers? That’s a stretch! But seriously, TSA would probably do that.

Wait for the lawsuit, John must have flown them, and I call it “Horror Air”. Most interesting trip (of many actually) was when I thought the runway stripes were awfully close, the pilot put on the power, and I heard the landing gear go down as he made the “go around”. On leaving the plane, I asked the pilot if there was ground fog that forced them to go around. He looked sheepish and said “Yes.”. I responded that if you put the landing gear down it cuts right through that. He responded, “Oh, you noticed.” Yep…

Regional airlines ARE the scariest, and most of course now owned by the few majors left after deregulation “saved” the industry, but certainly not the passengers and cities abandoned in “reorganizations”.

…. and you get to pick your colour of duct tape.