Friday, September 1, 2023

Adults Only

Corendon Airlines, a Turkish-Dutch carrier, has introduced adults only section in all their flights. This is to save adult passengers from crying babies and uncontrollable children. Now adult passengers can sit in an area where children are not allowed. That airlines says that this is to facilitate travelers without children and business travelers who want to work quietly. 

Good idea. But where will this end! It used to be smoking and non-smoking area. Now adults only section. Since I have nothing else to do, I came with a few suggestions for the airline industry. Here are some examples: 

How about separate drinking and non-drinking area. (Some passengers may not want to sit with people who drink alcohol.) 

How about separate vegetarian and non-vegetarian area. (Some passengers may not want to be near those who eat non-vegetarian.) 

How about separate male and female area. (Orthodox male passengers belonging to some religion may not want to sit with female passengers. Their religion forbade even inadvertent physical contact with a woman.) 

How about separate Heterosexual and LGBTQ area. (There are some people with homophobia)

How about separate area for passengers with different political affiliation. (It can be done in USA and UK where there are only 2 or 3 main political parties. No need for this in countries with military rule or dictatorship. But problem with countries with many political parties.  For example, India has 37 different political parties in India’s parliament). 

If you can come up with an idea for any other separate area in a plane, please let me know. Thanks.

Thursday, August 24, 2023

First GOP Primary Debate

Yesterday night was the first GOP Presidential candidates’ debate. There were 8 candidates. 1 former Vice President, 5 present/former Governors, 1 Senator, and 1 Rich Businessman. Of course, the leading candidate Donald Trump decided not to participate. 


Before the debate, I was thinking that everyone is going to pound on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. But Surprise Surprise Surprise. Everyone started to blast Vivek Ramaswamy. Looked like they did not like this unknown and inexperienced rich businessman from nowhere is tied to the second place. Here are some examples: 

Chris Christie - I’ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT. 

Mike Pence – You are a rookie with no government experience. 

Vivek Ramaswamy handled all of them well except Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley gave Vivek a left-hook on foreign policy. She ripped him about his stand on Russia’s war with Ukraine and China-Taiwan conflict. 

There was no good debate on economic issues. People care about rising prices and not about UFO. 

Chris Christie alone criticized Donald Trump. All other seven were either supporting Trump or keeping quiet

Every newspaper and television network, after the debate,  started to grade these 8 candidates in 3 categories. Winner. Middle of the Ground. Loser. The only person who was consistent in all the rankings is Vivek Ramaswamy. He came as a winner. 

Political commentator Carol Swain said: Vivek Ramaswamy was the clear winner of the debate. He would make a great vice-presidential choice for DonaldJTrump or RonDeSantis. None of the other candidates did themselves any good. I recommend they pack up and go home." 

Next debate will be on September 27 in California. Let us see how many people qualifies to be here.

Monday, August 14, 2023

Strange Airport Codes

WOW – Willow, Alaska

FUN – Funafuti, Tuvalu 

BUM – Butler Airport, Missouri 

BOM – Mumbai Airport 

MAA - Chennai

DAD – Da Nang, Vietnam 

COW – Coquimbo, Chile 

SAD – Safford, Arizona 

BOO – Bodø, Norway 

ODD – Oodnadatta, Australia 

FAT – Fresno, California 

and finally 

FUK – Fukuoka, Japan

If you know of any strange airport code, please let me know in the comment section.  Thanks.