Monday, December 31, 2007

One Way Flights with Plush Upholstery

It doesn't get any plusher than the interior of the specially built rooms on board a prospective new entrant to the UK airline market. Their seats are something special too. But you really don't want to take a trip with them if you can avoid it...

The wonderfully named 'Asylum Airways' (feel like you might have already been on one of their flights?) is in discussion with the Government over providing air transport for deportees. The niche market is set to grow as regular airlines resist carrying difficult and sometimes violent passengers back to their home countries, and Austrian carrier Asylum is keen to capitalise.

Using aircraft adapted for the job of removing 'disruptive refugees' from the UK, they aim to provide a specialist service in concert with UK security companies. The on board facilities include padded cells and restraint harnesses fitted to the seats. Reports that they will accept ordinary travellers on a 'stand by' basis are unconfirmed, but given the behaviour of some fare-paying passengers the regular airlines may consider installing a padded cell or two...

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