As if flying isn’t dangerous enough these days, a German entrepreneur is trying to raise money to build an airline which allows smoking on board.
Smoker’s International Airways, or Smintair, is hoping to cash in on the nicotine addicts who can’t sit in a plane for a few hours without going into seizures.
Alexander Schoppmann, the 30-cigarette-a-day chain smoking mastermind behind the idea has already collected €300 million from yellow-fingered investors. He plans to “bring back the joy of flying” with a Düsseldorf-Tokyo route where smokers traveling between the countries can light up and puff away for the duration of the 12 hour flight.
Ugh! Can you imagine the air in that plane after 12 hours? And your bloodshot eyes and stinky clothes?
I’d rather fly with a clan of Tajik goat herders who haven’t bathed in three months than to be on that plane, thank you very much.