Not a fan of the idea of flying alongside cargo

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 04/20/2020 at 16:07 • Filed to: None

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But right now, I'm not flying at all. :(

Goggles Pizzano > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:13

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What’s the cost to fly as cargo?

fintail > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:18

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I wonder if any of it will be live poultry:

Hopefully not bats as well.

Roadkilled > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:21

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It used to be common on Alaska Airlines.

https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/combi-plane-retires/

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:23

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Why not? Cargo is probably better behaved than other passengers.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:24

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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”.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/20/2020 at 16:25

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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.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Goggles Pizzano 04/20/2020 at 16:25

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Airline response:  “You already are cargo.  You just don’t know it.”

PS9 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:46

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A silent piece of cargo is a lot better than a noisy uncontrollable child kicking your seat. 

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:57

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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.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 16:58

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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.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:00

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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!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 04/20/2020 at 17:02

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Certainly thinks of us as worse than cargo. We come with too much baggage, both literal and figurative.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 04/20/2020 at 17:09

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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.

SmugAardvark > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:14

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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.

Nauraushaun > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:15

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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?

jimz > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:42

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looks like they’re transporting power droids.

“gonk.”

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:45

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What if you’re allowed to borrow some of the cargo, as long as no one sees you do it?

ranwhenparked > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/20/2020 at 17:47

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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. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/20/2020 at 18:13

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Or sheds coronavirus...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 04/20/2020 at 18:15

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Cargo can’t breath aerosolized virus particles onto you.

BTW: do you even fold?

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/20/2020 at 21:31

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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. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 04/20/2020 at 21:36

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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!