You know I find it hard to wrap my head around some decisions. One in particular was in a story that was on CNN last week. The airline Air Canada has jettisoned life jackets from its regional carrier, Jazz, in a bid to save money on fuel. Which I will lay odds will not translate into a ticket savings for the consumer.
From CNN:
Stuart says Jazz is a transcontinental carrier that doesn’t fly over the ocean.
Jazz planes do fly over the Great Lakes and along the Eastern seaboard from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Boston, Massachusetts, and to New York.
Stuart says all of Jazz’s flights operate within 50 miles from shore. She says the airline operates 880 flights daily to 85 destinations in North America and says the number of flights that operate over water are minimal.
Instead they refer to using your seat cushion as a flotation device. I don’t know about you but, personally, I would much prefer paying a little more for the damn life vest. Seriously, when was the last time you could swim over a mile on Lake Superior?
Yeah, I thought as much.
[tags]Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz, Air Canada Life Vests[/tags]
I’m pretty sure US Airways flight 1549 wasn’t going to be flying over the ocean…