Comments on: Next Air Travel Nightmare: A Captive Audience Makes For Perfect Retail Sales Opportunities

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:52:26 +0000

Rail is definitely the way to go if you have the time, and if there’s one going where you need to go. Who is working hardest to suppress rail travel? The airlines, of course. A nice “BTU Tax” is what we need…

By: deowll

deowll — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:43:55 +0000

I think that video conferencing is going to become more attractive with the passing of time.

By: AdmFubar

AdmFubar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:45:08 +0000

i can see the airlines new ads now, with Beldar Conehead as their “spokesperson”

When on Earth ,I always fly “Consume Mass Quantities Airlines”!

By: bill

bill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:05:10 +0000

Tell them to don’t forget to turn up the volume to overpower the iPods and BOSE headsets with their commercial message!

Just remember two words… “The train”
or “stay home”

A little slower but a lot more fun!

By: MikeR

MikeR — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:16 +0000

“Welcome aboard FlyUs flight 111, brought to you by Amway. Please sit back and enjoy a live 5 hour presentation by our friend Amy on the wonderful world of Amway multi-level marketing.”

By: spsffan

spsffan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:41 +0000

I’m with Benjamin. I don’t care to fly and I avoid it whenever possible. It’s been more than 10 years now. Every year the stories about air travel get worse and worse.

I’ll take the train or drive whenever possible until Scotty gets that transporter invented.

Oh, and a nice healthy carbon tax would squelch a whole lot of air traffic. Something to think about.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:33 +0000

#4, I think you meant “Expect expensive internet service…”. After all, we’re talking airlines!

By: Improbus

Improbus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:55:48 +0000

[sarcasm on]
Don’t you care about our National Security Benjamin? I am afraid we have to send you to Gitmo now. Your lax security would let the ‘terrists win.
[sarcasm off]

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:38 +0000

I haven’t been on an airplane since 1996 and only because I had to fly home. I don’t like to fly because I was on an airplane that had to make an emergency landing because there was a hole in the wing.

Is this what the Apple patent was about? Are they going to put a touch interface on the back of the seat movie screens? If so do you got to click on it at certain times to prove that you are paying attention to the Viagra commercial? Because you are probably plotting something if you don’t pay enough attention to the ads being pushed at you and you are obviously a terrorist.

I am not going to fly on a plane until they stop the BS with this over-hyped security where they strip search granny, yet let Abdul, Habib, and Mohammad through because it would be racial profiling to search them. In fact, if I had the money, I would start my own airline and landing strips and do without so much security and BS.

By: Improbus

Improbus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:10:10 +0000

Give me an airline that sells booze, weed, condoms, hookers and internet access and you have a customer for life.

By: John E. Quantum

John E. Quantum — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:12 +0000

Makes perfect sense- escort services, viagra, and ShamWows for after. Just take a clue from Vince and don’t try to kiss the escort.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:31:43 +0000

I already roll my eyes when the air waitresses try to sell me a MegaByte cookie and the captain needs to tell me how high up we are.

The solution is an iPOD and headset or earplugs. I think selling while travel is inevitable. Expect cheap internet service but with megadoses of advertisement too.

By: RTaylor

RTaylor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:16:04 +0000

Maybe they could sell ads for the side of the plane, like blimps. How about dropping leaflets. How about doing away with the insane pricing system and charge the same for each seat. Nothing like sitting next to someone finding out they paid half the price you did.

By: soundwash

soundwash — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:26 +0000

Speaking of air travels..

Apparently, The Ukrainians had a chemtrail attack a few days prior to people’s lungs starting to liquefy.

get a load of the gizmo hooked up to the back of this jetliner.

(btw: they sprayed again over my area making for another wild sunset..)

-s

By: rudedog

rudedog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:48:38 +0000

They better hire more air marshals