nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2005-08-15 10:34 pm

twenty-something airlines

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.

[identity profile] squarkz.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
GENIUS.

i want to sit by a cute boy.

[identity profile] furzicle.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] wanton-adonis.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] emidala.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
the crying baby class has a separate airline already. it is called british airways.

[identity profile] roxymartini.livejournal.com 2005-08-16 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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.