Recent am citit pe radar.oreilly, What We Have vs. What We Want, sursa directă. În India un intreprinzător, fost inginer în aeronautică, a decis să vindă bilete la avion (Airbus 300) care niciodata nu decolează. În India 99% din populaţie niciodată nu a zburat cu avionul, si se gaseste multă lume care le-ar plăcea să vadă din interior avionul, să asculte anunţul aviatorului despre decolare, să vadă stewardesse-a cum arată ce de făcut în caz că avionul cade în apă sau cum de inchis/deschis centura de siguranţă.. Si costul e aproximativ 2.5EURO, chiar si aer condiţionat există %) As on an ordinary aircraft, customers buckle themselves in and watch a safety demonstration. But when they look out of the windows, the landscape never changes. Even if “Captain” Gupta wanted to get off the ground, the plane would not go far: it only has one wing and a large part of the tail is missing. None of that bothers Gupta as he sits at the controls in his cockpit. His regular announcements include, “We will soon be passing through a zone of turbulence” and “We are about to begin our descent into Delhi.” “Some of my passengers have crossed the country to get on this plane,” says Gupta, who charges about £2 each for passengers taking the “journey”. The plane has no lighting and the lavatories are out of order. The air-conditioning is powered by a generator. Some of the stewardesses hope to get jobs on proper planes one day and regard it as useful practice. As for the passengers, they are too poor to afford a real airline ticket and most have only ever seen the interior of an aircraft in films. “I see planes passing all day long over my roof,” Selim, a 40-year-old tyre mechanic was quoted as saying. “I had to try out the experience.” Jasmine, a young teacher, had been longing to go on a plane. “It is much more beautiful than I ever imagined,” she said. Din altă parte, oamenii bogaţi plătesc să trăiască ca oamenii săraci, India’s rich pay to live like peasants. Mad world, cum s-ar spune.. ;o) Defapt eu poate tot asi plati sa stau putin intr-un shuttle care decoleaza pe marte pe undeva ;o) Si capitanul sa zica “poehali”, g. Bugaga..