04/20/2020 at 16:07 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
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But right now, I'm not flying at all. :(
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What’s the cost to fly as cargo?
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I wonder if any of it will be live poultry:
Hopefully not bats as well.
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It used to be common on Alaska Airlines.
https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/combi-plane-retires/
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Why not? Cargo is probably better behaved than other passengers.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the airline execs ALREADY think of you as “self loading cargo”.
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Exactly. No fat cargo, cargo that pukes, cargo that takes its shoes off or needs to piss 9 times during a 2 hour flight.
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Airline response: “You already are cargo. You just don’t know it.”
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A silent piece of cargo is a lot better than a noisy uncontrollable child kicking your seat.
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You already fly with cargo on a passenger flight. The only difference here is that they have brought some of the cargo up from below deck and replaced the seats with it.
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There’s probably a downside but if it looks like it does in the photo then I think I’d be okay with it.
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Cargo doesnt have screaming children. Cargo doesnt lean the seat back while you are trying to use a laptop. Cargo cant overshare with you about how drunk they are. Cargo cant put their coat and underseat bag in the overhead bin when the FA’s explicitly ask them not to. Cargo cant get up when the fasten seat belt sign is on, delaying departure and/or arrival . I accept these new co-passengers gladly!
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Certainly thinks of us as worse than cargo. We come with too much baggage, both literal and figurative.
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As we used to say on the ramp - “boxes don’t bitch”. I always preferred working the freighters - so much less stress.
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The reality is that most airlines also fly cargo and air mail. You just generally don’t see it in the cabin.
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It does mean the chance of having a baby, sick person or some other loud/crazy person in those seats is zero, and the bathroom availability goes up.
What’s the down side?
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looks like they’re transporting power droids.
“gonk.”
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What if you’re allowed to borrow some of the cargo, as long as no one sees you do it?
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I would much rather fly alongside cargo than people, especially if its neatly contained and strapped down like that. No BO, no clipping toenails, no fat ass spilling under the armrest into my seat, no wanting to chat about what line of work I’m in and is it my first time in Charlotte, etc.
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Or sheds coronavirus...
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Cargo can’t breath aerosolized virus particles onto you.
BTW: do you even fold?
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I honestly have no idea what folding is and haven't tried to figure it out lol. Something to do with using a computer of which I have no functional ones worth a damn. I have a mini computer I ran in my car like 8 years ago and an 11 year old laptop. Otherwise just my phone and tablet.
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You’ve given me a smile with that reply; thank you. No worries. I’m in recruiting mode.
There are researchers at Stanford who have immense computational models to figure out why certain proteins don’t “fold” properly, which is somehow at the nuts and bolts level of why certain diseases, like Parkinson’s for example, happen. And COVID. These are super computer-sized computations and they slice them up and send them around to folks’ computers at home. So Team Oppositelock is like a virtual, or “logical,” supercomputer. And we are KILLING IT.
Cheers!