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| Nok Beak |
Orn 1: You flown Bird
Air? Attendants wear BEAKS.
Orn 2: Yeah? I was
on a Tiger Air flight with the attendants wearing tails.
Orn 1: I heard,
you know, some of the Dragon Air girls have Lisbeth Salander tattoos.
Orn 2: Oh yeah? I
once flew on Pegasus.
Orn 1: You did
not. Mythical Airline.
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Voice-over
Thought goes into
the business plan. Then comes the naming. Sometimes akin to clutching at last
minute straws. Pelican Freight, fair enough. But KiwiAir, for a flightless
bird? Some thought often goes into costumes but accessories... like beaks and
tails?
(from Air Raising
Stories, 2013).
Kiwi Air does chill the bones of the imagination then. But worse, I thought, would be Dodo Air for some south Pacific island nation - what image does that evoke in the airplane domain?
ReplyDeleteThanks for imagining.
Dodo? Running hard to try to get airborne? Speaking of which, just finished reading a highly recommendable book by James Fallows (Atlantic) "China Airborne". Starts with his story of copiloting a Cirrus across Southern China, springboards to an account of China's aviation industry (so frightening I wonder I ever made it out of China alive in the early 80s) a pirouette around the rink of Chinese Industrial Policy, before taking a Cumulo-Nimbo flight out.
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