After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever. The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. If you succeed in getting on the plane and the plane succeeds in taking off the ground, you have a wonderful trip…except for the time when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you will just have time to say your prayers and get in crash position. Then you fill our a form showing where you want to sit and whether the plane should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus. To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten different times by standing in ten different lines. Once they finally finished you’re offered a flight at reduced cost. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. Airline personnel walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. The announcer says that their flight has just departed, wishes them a good flight, though there are no planes on the runway. The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on.
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