Top ten signs you are flying on an airline in financial trouble…

Last Friday, David Letterman’s top ten list was:

 

“Top ten signs you have a bad travel agent.”

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/index/php/20080620.phtml

In response:

“Top ten signs you are flying on an airline in financial trouble.”

10.  When they pass out pretzels, they pass the pilot’s cap around for donations.

9.  They divert cross-country flight to Texas to fill up on cheaper gas.

8.  Flight attendants all wearing cast-off pantsuits from Hillary Clinton.

7.  The overhead bins have been turned into coin lockers.

6.  Flight attendants announce that your seat cushions not only double as a flotation device, they will also double as your pillow.

5.  “Buy on board” for $5.00 will now include alcoholic beverages, snack boxes and shares of airline stock.

4. Napkins show signs of being purchased at close-out discount stores – for example being printed “Giuliani for President 2008”

3. Airline fuselage covered with more sponsorship stickers than an Indy car.

2. Instead of turning on air conditioning, flight attendants hand out paper fans.

1.  You are flying on an airline based in the United States.

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