“Can I Exchange My Round-Trip Ticket for a Rectangular One?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.08.03 | 12:03 AM ET
Air travel humor, as every traveler knows, peaked in 1980 with the release of the movie Airplane! Since then, it’s mostly been a blur of second-rate comedians making jokes about airline food. (Since most of today’s airlines don’t even serve meals any more, however, we can declare that wave over). The next wave of air travel humor arrives courtesy of The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, which has just completed a national flight humor contest. First-place awards were given in three categories—true passenger story, true pilot story and original joke. Are the honorees funny? They don’t meet the standard kneepad-wearing NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set in Airplane!, but several offer a few chuckles. Read the winning jokes and assorted other entries like the one above at flighthumor.com.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
