IT USTA BE…#4
DELIGHTFUL to fly! To soar in luxury above the clouds! To climb aboard and then exit in another part of the world! Gone are those days and what’s more, there’s no likelihood that airlines will ever “get it” and restore the level of excellence we used to know and expect, except for taking money quickly and efficiently, and creating new ways of not giving it back where deserved without a fight. Sorry to say this, but if there was ever an industry hopelessly wedded to “crowd sales” it has to be the airline industry. And this without addressing even the most basic concerns regarding passenger safety.
The key to unlocking this Gordian Knot is, of course, shifting from “crowd sales” to “individual service” with emphasis on in-the-air safety first. It used to be enough to depend on the adage that the flight crew would die with the passengers, hence, every human effort possible could be counted on in an event. Sadly, the complexity of flight transportation these days makes cockpit effort simply a sad epitaph. Technology has always been there to assist industry, but it can only advance an industry if that industry is mentally positioned to take advantage of technology. Think COVID on airplanes, and I think you’ll agree that even the simplest efforts at preventing the spread of disease, a very basic issue, indeed, needs rethinking from airport to air. Same with individual passenger safety, comfort and experience.
And what if the airline industry proves, as it has, unable or simply unwilling to make the leap to “individual service?” Then I suggest we pick up the slack in terms of rail, which is at least moderately more amenable to this new thinking. As well as…need I say the horrid word…walking. Or bicycling. Lump it all together as “assisted walking” as in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Or call it humanism, or environmental awareness, interaction and appreciation over crass money and power, which are, I remind, two of the greatest and most destructive illusions humankind has ever invented and continues to deny having any responsibility for the effects thereof.
The Edge of Madness
Available in printed, digital and audiobook formats; purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
The key to unlocking this Gordian Knot is, of course, shifting from “crowd sales” to “individual service” with emphasis on in-the-air safety first. It used to be enough to depend on the adage that the flight crew would die with the passengers, hence, every human effort possible could be counted on in an event. Sadly, the complexity of flight transportation these days makes cockpit effort simply a sad epitaph. Technology has always been there to assist industry, but it can only advance an industry if that industry is mentally positioned to take advantage of technology. Think COVID on airplanes, and I think you’ll agree that even the simplest efforts at preventing the spread of disease, a very basic issue, indeed, needs rethinking from airport to air. Same with individual passenger safety, comfort and experience.
And what if the airline industry proves, as it has, unable or simply unwilling to make the leap to “individual service?” Then I suggest we pick up the slack in terms of rail, which is at least moderately more amenable to this new thinking. As well as…need I say the horrid word…walking. Or bicycling. Lump it all together as “assisted walking” as in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Or call it humanism, or environmental awareness, interaction and appreciation over crass money and power, which are, I remind, two of the greatest and most destructive illusions humankind has ever invented and continues to deny having any responsibility for the effects thereof.
The Edge of Madness
Available in printed, digital and audiobook formats; purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
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