twenty-something airlines

[nibot]

Our basic theory is that airlines should operate less like "window or aisle" and more like a dating service. Fill out some kind of description of your conversational preferences before the flight and maybe you'll avoid the twerpy all-elbows 13-year-old-going-on-ten in favor of someone a little more interesting. It would be a good excuse to have decent food on airplanes again too. Another element of the theory concerns the creation of a new class of service below "economy," tentatively called "crying baby class" and isolated via soundproof walls.

Comments

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

GENIUS.

i want to sit by a cute boy.

[janviere.livejournal.com]

I bet there are a whole lot more un-cute frequent-flying men who want to sit next to you... (eep)

I'd fly crying baby class if it were cheap.

eep, indeed.

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

well, that's true. i'd sit next to a crying baby over a cute boy if i thought it would save me a hundred bucks.

Re: eep, indeed.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

we couldn't have crying baby class be cheaper--then it would just be another economy class

so you can still sit next to your cute boy.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Fortunately the matches will have to be mutually compatible.

You could request "cute boy or awesome girl," and then you and sara might end up together.

[shamster.livejournal.com]

I want to sit by a cute girl... the all-elbows kind. RAWR!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm enjoying your observation of the "13-year-old-going-on-10 syndrome." It validates what I witnessed last year at middle school.

[wanton-adonis.livejournal.com]

The only cute boys.....in all of my flights.....ever.....have been in first class.....can't we have a ladies night or something for first class?

I definitely agree that buisness class should be broken up into researchers, salesmen, assholes ie cellphone addicts, and not yet but working to be the next evolution in management.

[pixieza.livejournal.com]

that sounds like my sort of class!

café class

[nibot.livejournal.com]

brilliant.

[emidala.livejournal.com]

the crying baby class has a separate airline already. it is called british airways.

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

the worst thing about the crying babies- apparently their parents aren't even charged to bring them aboard! i think they should be charged regular fare, and that fare should be distributed amongst the n people closest to the crying baby. n being like, 10. so that if you have a $500 flight and are seated close to a crying baby, you get $50 for it. if you are seated near 2 of them, you get $100!

oh. and your dating service idea sounds creepy. forget conversation preferences. i want pictures of everyone i could possibly be sitting next to.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

and scratch and sniff samples????