Unattended Baggage

My plane is taking off and there’s no place for unattended or overweight bags. Please leave those problems at the door or take the useless contents of your past life out before setting foot in my airship. My fuselage is cracked enough do to my own past journeys, to add your dents to mine could bring about an emergency landing. No time for pit stops; my voyage has just begun.

The FAA has rules that I intend to follow. I’m working on adhering to those principals preflight. I’m smoothing out my kinks and building a sturdier engine. My passengers need a safe journey. I’d hate for them to be amidst my turbulence. You lose customers when you can’t deliver a good experience.
I don’t want my frequent fliers to always long for the "exit row". When I’m complete this will be a trip of a lifetime.

These tickets are first class only; can you afford to ride? I’ve had enough passengers that bring about problems that can make a two-hour destination an everlasting miserable experience. If you want a bigger responsibility, then that means you have a larger scale to be measured on.

So now I ask... What are you doing to merge with my airline? You have to have a 5 star personality to co-captain this ship. I’m in training to get my wings, but when it’s time to soar the skies, I need you to be ready to help anchor. I’m quite capable of doing it alone, but if I dose off... who will get the wheel?

I need someone I can trust with my life, that I know will be fit enough to coincide with this journey. The vision is my own, but if you’re headed in my direction we can cut our expenses if we choose to ride together. As inflation takes off and the prices go up, so do my expectations. You get what you pay for, and for every expensive experience it needs to be cost-effective. So the real question is... Are you worth my investment?

I can’t invest in damaged goods. You can’t gleam on the outside but have a tarnished interior when I open that door. I’d rather take a flight in a DC-10 with a few common dents, or in need of a new paint job if the soul of its engine is fine-tuned to withstand our journey. Just because you look good on the outside doesn’t mean your course is set to follow mine. I know how to deviate; I won’t follow anyone towards destruction.

Right now I’m resting in the mechanic’s hanger. Preparing myself for that journey. No fleet has to fly alone. If you think you’re equipped to enter my radar, I suggest that you be worth entering my radius. As I stated prior, this airline has no place for unattended or overweight bags. Anyone who chooses to break these rules will be immediately asked to exit the cabin. Thanks.

© A. L. Lewis