One Last Flight on Independence Air
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.11.06 | 2:30 PM ET
Independence Air went out of business last week, and Joe Sharkey bought a ticket on the low-fare carrier for one of its final flights. “As Flight 1217 descended into Dulles, [Flight Attendant Kari] Harris made the requisite announcements and added her thanks to the passengers for their company on her last flight,” Sharkey writes in the New York Times. “I watched how carefully she stowed the cans and replaced the napkins in their bins, as if someone would ever reach for them again. She removed her apron and folded it as neatly as if she were in her own kitchen….She dabbed at her eyes quickly with a tissue. ‘I almost made it without tears,’ she said.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
