November 25, 2005
Hold your airline-food lunches...
From El Universal of Venezuela:
Conviasa partners Aeroregional, creates "che route"
Venezuelan airline Conviasa and Argentinean carrier Aeroregional entered into an agreement to establish Caracas-Buenos Aires route, and some other destinies in Latin America, named after che guevara, with prices below 20 percent of market average tariffs.
An additional, salient issue in the letter of intent is transportation of equipment and passengers from the South to Caracas as part of Miracle mission, a Venezuelan government health care initiative, according to a press release from the Tourism Ministry.
Previously, Conviasa entered into a similar agreement with Uruguayan airline Pluna. "We are working on integration of Southern airlines. We have held talks with Pluna and now with Aeroregional, i.e., we are paving the way for future integration with a view to consolidating a large Southern airline to be called Aerosur," Tourism Minister Wilmar castro Soteldo commented.
***
One wonders if each trip comes with a free bullet. Or whether motorcycle engines are to be used to power these planes. Will there be Cuban 'doctors' on every flight? Will there be 'frequent-killer' miles? Do little kids get Glock pins instead of wings from the stewardesses? And does the damn thing fly over Bolivia?
UPDATE: A source from Caracas has just sent me a photo of one of the Caracas To Havana 'eye doctor' flights. Note that the people on the flights don't look as though they are in too good of condition. I doubt it's good health care they are getting from these twin communist regimes looking for a propaganda victory.
Source: Venezuelan Communist Propaganda
Posted by Mora at November 25, 2005 05:55 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.babalublog.com/cgi-bin/mt/hut.cgi/2576
Comments
Anybody care to venture a guess about how long would anyone who is NOT a government apparatchik in Cuba today would remain out of police custody if they tried to emulate che huevera's famous motorcycle ride across the South American continent on the island country?
What kind of epithets do you think the Communist authorities would call them? Because we all know they wouldn't simply be catalogued as Cubans exercising their U.N. Charter-recognized rights to travel freely.
Or what might happen to them after applying for a visa to attempt to follow this new airline proposal?
Inquiring minds... want to know!
Julio
Posted by: Julio C. Zangroniz at November 25, 2005 07:35 PM
They look in pain...
Posted by: Adriana at November 26, 2005 03:34 PM
a bus full of groggy in-pain poor folk. In-and-out with no time for recuperation cause they don't have the beds. This is assembly-line surgery concept.
Posted by: GWEH at November 26, 2005 03:36 PM
I would love to read an opthalmologist's or fligt surgeon's opinion, on the subject of getting on a plane immediately after eye surgery.
Explosive decompression can occurr without warning on the best kept aircraft, and it dumps the pressurized cabin in a split second. At cruise altitude, gases in your body expand rapidly, bursting healthy tissue... so I can only imagine that fresh scar tissue won't last long.
Imagine all those empty eye sockets. All worth the risk to the compan~eros, I guess.
Posted by: Soroaman at November 26, 2005 05:28 PM
damn Soroaman, that's gross...they fly them on all kinds of aircraft including Ilyushin 18. Checkout this one that went off the runway in Caracas (nobody seriously hurt):
http://www.rescate.com/CUT-1539.html
the site is temporarily down as of this posting...I'm confident it will return.
(it's the venezuelan air-accident rescue guys - very professional group)
Posted by: GWEH at November 26, 2005 06:30 PM
How come each of them only has problems with one eye. Normally, if you get some eye disease, it frequently affects both eyes. Makes me wonder if these mostly women were victims of domestic violence rather than actual eye disease.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at November 26, 2005 06:40 PM
Mora,
In the case of eye problems, usually, doctors prefer to treat only one eye at a time. Not only does this method help the patient to continue to have some vision during the time of the treatment process --that is, via a non-operated eye-- but it also minimizes the risk of permanent blindness should something go awfully wrong with the procedure.
Presumably, these folks will be back to have the other eye treated, once the original surgery heals up.
I'm not a doctor --much less an eye doctor-- and I certainly don't play one anywhere, but this is the explanation I've heard in the past.
Julio
Posted by: Julio C. Zangroniz at November 26, 2005 08:48 PM
methinks they're too young for cataract surgery; perhaps they're guinea pigs for keratotomias, or similar procedure.
Posted by: SydneyHedderich at November 27, 2005 07:37 PM
I'm sorry, but that picture made me laugh- they all "match"!
Posted by: nurian at November 28, 2005 09:51 AM
