Guilt In The Skies

While waiting to board a return flight at an airport last week, I had a sudden epiphany while listening to a boarding announcement that rows 1-15 were reserved for those passengers who spoke only fluent English. I thought of someone who only spoke Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, etc, for they would have to be excluded from this area of the plane as they could not effectively communicate emergency needs.

How would this mesh with our litigious society in it's constant quest for political correctness? Then I said to myself that maybe the answer is to have interpreters available on all flights to cover the world's languages, thereby disregarding the host country's language for this makes for sound political correctness (guilt)!

Go Placidly,
Dan Miller