JetBlue pulls through!

Holy Shizizizzle! I cannot imagine what it must have been like to have been on yesterday's JetBlue flight 292! If you've ever taken JetBlue then you know that each seat has its own satellite television. (A couple of years ago it had only lower tier cable channels, but now carries NBC and CNN Headline News, among others.) Those passengers were able to see the entire thing, clips of their plane circling with the landing gear highlighted, reports that the plane was circling to burn off fuel to prevent a fire ball, etc. Can you imagine what must have been going through their heads? I'm surprised to hear that things were as calm on board as they were. Then again, my experiences flying JetBlue have always been excellent. I used to fly them much more frequently to California, though in the last year or so their prices have been almost double what I find on orbitz.com, regardless of how far ahead I try book the flight. I simply can't remember a time when anybody from the ticket counter to the flight crew wasn't efficient and friendly. After the landing I'm happy not only for the passengers but also for JetBlue.

Of course, we were talking about the landing in the department office today. Others were saying how freaky it must have been and all that. My partiality for JetBlue expressed itself in an odd way. I said, "Well, thank God they were on JetBlue and not some other airline like Hooters Air! I mean, I'm sure that much of their maintenance money goes into better 'flotation devices.'" To this someone else replied, "I don't know... Hooters Air has never had an accident, have they?" She did have a point. And yeah, there really is a Hooters airline. They fly between places like Newark, Philly and Scranton to Orlando, Vegas and Ft. Lauderdale. Yeah.

Hooters Air, do we need any more evidence of an impending apocalypse?