No more UK flights for CJ

[cjsmith]

I'll get on a transatlantic plane without carry-on luggage when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

(Or when they pay me the full replacement price of my checked luggage when I board. On the unlikely chance I ever see it again, and on time too, I'll gladly refund the money... minus a modest handling charge. AND they must have at least three decent full-length novels in the passenger cabin for me, as that's how many I'll need.)

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, another friend noted that! Wasn't there a Star Trek episode...? On the other hand, they could haul a lot more passengers that way. Stack 'em like cordwood.

[spicy-turkey.livejournal.com]

Yes, perfect!

I'm trying to laugh at all this and hoping that "surely this can't be a permanent change in air travel", but of course that's really only a way to keep from screaming and crying and planning an escape to.... oh I don't know what country at this point. What I'm really thinking is "well, I guess this may have been about the most successful attack on 'life as we have gotten used to it' that anyone could have hoped or planned for". Sigh....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't know what country either. Something small enough to fly my own plane across in a day... but then the whole point of that is to visit friends or call for square dance clubs, and I can't move all of THEM.

I wonder how well this form of attack would work if people as a whole simply were not afraid of flying. People have bombed subways, and nobody has implemented metal detector and X-ray screening there. Folks just basically keep on keeping on.

[spicy-turkey.livejournal.com]

All true.

So how do we get people to not act on fear? Imagine a U.S. not ruled by fear...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I truly do not know how. That would be amazing.