When Pigs Fly

As tech companies continually diversify and as the U.S. airline companies’ ‘impending-doom’ business models go obsolete, the airlines are bound to be taken over by someone outside the airline business, aren’t they? Here’s how we think that would go.

GAir from Google

· Free air travel for everyone! However, they will stream ads into your brain customized to what you are dreaming about. And when you wake up, you will realize that you only want to buy Google products.

· Will fly into every city, every country and every corner of the world and will have 17 restaurants on board so that you can eat sushi on Wednesday and organic on Friday and vegan on Sunday. They will also be powered with hydrogen.

Air China

· Really cheap tickets but you have to build a toy and a shoe while you are sitting in the plane.

Air Starbucks

· The tickets would be priced at least three times as much as the competition. But there would be an airport on every corner, making it impossible to avoid.

Air Goldman Sachs

· With their ‘innovative’ hybrid-collateral-flexi-auction pricing models, you would never know how much you paid for your ticket. The airline executives would earn huge bonuses everytime a plane crashed.

Air Obama

· Everyone would feel really good about getting on the plane, but would never know where they’re going.

iAir from Apple

· The flight is awesome, super easy to book, great customer service, lots of games and media but the plane can only fly to 3 cities

· All passengers have to sit in a certain angle for the plane to fly and if you hold the seat rest 'incorrectly' the plane will crash and burn.

· iAir Engineers will release the product inspite of knowing the defects and Steve Jobs Jr would give away free travel pillow to offset the negative PR.

· After iAir builds its first planes, GAir will try to replicate the plane while adding the extra benefit of allowing passengers to sit in any direction on the plane they want (even upside down!) In the end, everyone will find it a bit more awkward to have your fellow passengers choose to sit with their heads in your crotch, and always just an imitation. But the iAir passengers will now be able to complain - why don't we get to sit upside down? Funny thing about it is that despite all of this, everyone will still fly iAir.