Hey TSA: Why not just sedate the passengers?
- 28.12.2009
- Posted by Jonathan Firestone
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- Commentary ,Customer Experience ,Good Idea ,Humor ,Opinion ,Sarcasm ,User Experience
It’s disturbing what happened with Flight 253 — and reports are that the explosive was extremely powerful. We don’t know the full story yet behind the attack, but as I recall the immediate reaction from international security was to ban use of electronics for the last hour of the flight (forcing people who aren’t bored out of their minds to rent earphones or listen to songs and ads on their horrible in-flight networks or in-flight-potato-tubes), or once again enforcing a no-liquid ban, but really the ultimate solution is even more simple but economically sound than some have suggested (i.e. Banning all Passengers – good idea Mark ;D ) — which would be to put the passengers to sleep.
It’s been suggested before in some movies — and that probably wouldn’t be too bad, until of course the nurse administering the sedative (which might or not be an actual nurse) give the sedative to someone who has a bad reaction… But seriously, I expect this concept to be a Saturday Night Live skit pretty shortly. First class could be a small, private sleeping coffin *ahem* excuse me.. bunk… while the everyone else is just laying on top of each other like cargo to save room. Or in military-style bunks. Imagine the number of people you could put on a plane if they’re laying on the floor of the aircraft strapped down. What a savings in fuel and customer service efforts! No more stewards!
No wait, that would totally ruin the customer experience wouldn’t it?
Please TSA — I know you’re really concerned about security, but there have to be better ways of doing this. Are we learning anything from the Swedes? Or the Germans? Or anyone? I’d love to hear if any customers out there has had any good experiences with security despite how restrictive it’s becoming to just enjoy your flight somewhere. As a guy who loves to travel and would frankly love to go to Australia some day, I’d really like to know if there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
