A Bum Deal for Airline Passengers on Vacation
Boy, wouldn’t I love to hear the what’s on the “black box.”
So you’re sitting on a plane a maybe 30,000 in there, if that and the pilot announces that he would like all passengers to move the back of the plane, and remain seated?
Wouldn’t that put a f**king scare into you huh?
Actually, the story I read about passengers being told to sit at the back to balance the plane out while it was in flight, or just during take-off is hard to interpret, but I get the point…Don’t fly with that f**king airline if you value your life more than a holiday, EVER!
That’s what I say.
If there was any common sense left in the hierarchy of some of these airlines, it doesn’t appear to be showing anymore, and for whatever reason when time is money, cutting costs to reduce overhead costs at the risk of public safety seems to be the norm.
Air France is an airline like that for example.
What does anybody wanna bet that whether it was speed sensors attached to the belly of the plane, or, in fact a terrorist attack, corner’s were cut to save money. There is no f**king doubt in my mind about that.
Public safety doesn’t come first when it comes to filling seats and saving time. For airlines, founding people to fill their seats is like bobbing for apples without the water, and for every passenger killed in a plane crash, there is another one to replace that one.
The airline was warned to change the speed sensors, but chose not to, and Air France got wind of a bomb threat two days (?) earlier, but for whatever reason didn’t see the threat as serious enough to check every incoming and outgoing Air France flight leaving South America. So who knows, maybe a bomb did bring down flight 447 down.
I don’t think the world will ever know what happens. Oh, and about that black box, how deep is the ocean there again, and isn’t it kind of rugged beneath the waterline in that particular part of the Atlantic? Like they are ever going to find it.
The world will never know what happened to flight 447, but at the end of the day it is going to take a lot to convince me that it was anything but a terrorist attack.
There could have been a suicide bomber or two occupying a seat on that ill-fated plane, and at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean and 300-400 miles out to sea, well there isn’t going to be much of anything left to prove that it wasn’t a terrorist attack, human error, or a that a mechanical/technical malfunction that brought down that plane.
Whatever brought the plane down, putting cost cutting ahead of public safety is, in the end, what really brought the plane down.
Air travel, it’s pretty much the only way to get around the world.
Who wants to sail across the ocean to get from point A to point B, when it is so much better for the environment to take a plane? Lol, I’m being a smart ass for those of you not familiar with my blogging.
I crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice. There and back.
I boarded the St. Lawrence Navigator in Montreal, and from there I sailed to West Germany, to Holland, and then back across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Mississippi to somewhere around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I was a 17-year-old Canadian teenager then.
Anyway, my point is if you’re not in any rush to arrive at your overseas destination, whether for business or pleasure, boarding a ship isn’t a bad way to go.
Trust me; it’s just as safe crossing the Atlantic as it is on the Trans-Canada Highway, or any other road in Canada for that matter, if not safer.
You would have to keep your guard up though; you wouldn’t want to get hit by something falling from the sky, or a massive iceberg or rogue wave.
A plane though, uh-huh, not if it’s my call to make.
There is some good news for Australians who like to fly around the country though; Tiger Airways is currently charging less than it what it costs to buy a case beer for one-way tickets out of Sydney to places like Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth.
Personally though, I’d take the train and/or the bus from the Gold Coast or wherever. I can always afford to buy a beer or 10 when I travel.
Where I live, I could travel to Brisbane and back by rail, and still have enough leftover from $AU50.00 to pick up a half case of beer.
About those people who refused to board a Thomas Cook plane, they ended up boarding an easyJet flight the next day and Thomas Cook.…
Well if the story turns out to be true, their bottom line is going to suffer big time for a little while.
Using passengers as human ballast, uh, that ain’t exactly a good way to show off how safe [your] plane is, not in my opinion anyway.
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