This is why I drove a rental car to my last client
Just when you thought Air Canada couldn't get any cheaper, or callous: sweet merciful crap.
That link takes you to a CNN story this site picked up, explaining that Air Canada's regional operator, Jazz, has decided to save 25 kilograms of weight from each flight by getting rid of the life vests.
The rules state that as long as your plane is flying within 50 miles of land, it's okay to do this - you can use the seat cushion as a flotation device instead.
So as long as I can swim 50 miles I'll be okay?
Oh sweet mother - I think I have to sign up for some advanced swimming
lessons before going to my next client, which happens to be on the
coast.
Let's pray and hope - and assume for argument's sake - that in the unlikely event a plane needs to make an emergency landing it doesn't crash and crumple and otherwise disintegrate catastrophically.
If you were to look for a place to land and there were no roads in the area, what would be a better touch-down pad?
A bunch of trees standing ready to rip you to pieces?
Or a wide open lake?
Wouldn't it be best to maximize the chance of surviving once you're in the water?
Gee, thanks Air Canada. Your game of Russian roulette with my life just makes travel on your Lawn Dart class of airplanes so much more fun and fear-inducing.
There's only two good things one good thing that comes out of this news:
- This idea - rental jackets - is a hilarious response worth reading.
- It turns out I get to fly on a full-service Air Canada flight with
proper life jackets - oh nuts, I don't. It is in fact with Air Canada Jazz, the discount "life jackets are overkill" version of the national airline that has created this smouldering waterlogged disaster in the making.
I wonder how they would react if I came on board wearing my own life jacket? Would security even let me through with one?