We took off well from Nairobi, the flight heading to Lusaka via Harare. I think there might have been a pilot change since the take off at Harare was not as swift...but all in all by His grace we took off well, a bit shaky and bumby but well. That is when I started thinking while staring at the landscapes and the cotton wool like fluffy clouds what would happen if at all we got a matatu drivers to replace the current pilot. Okay I know its bizzare especially when you think of the way they overlap, make interesting U-turns and a variety of other many other road disasters that passengers chose to remain silent about. Then the worst is when you sit near the exit and you are made to sit in that space in the name of giving more room to a stranded sister/ brother who really really needs a paid ride???Anyway that aside, though it is totally included in this discussion as it will definitely pop up.
As we were passing through the clouds I saw a gap and could clearly see the other end of a nice route which we could have used if the pilot was a matatu driver...lol...yes I even smiled, no grinned at the thought of this. Thanks God I was sitting next to a guy who was sleeping most of the time otherwise they would have thought me mad. I imagined of the guy with his conductor and the conductor shouting, " weee dere kuna space tupenyee hapa tuwachane na hizi bumpy clouds", translated, "driver there is space here, in between this two clouds lets just pass through here and forget the bumpy ride in the clouds,".
Imagine scenario number two, there is bad weather and therefore a lot of traffic at JKIA and they have to divert flight to some other destination, if they were to hear that, trust me they would communicate, not through the towers, but by some weird flashing lights signals amongst themselves and if possible they would include the screen wipers and the hand signals ( note that it will be too cold for the hand signals so this will be limiting). Then they would drop passengers off so quickly in the nearest airport, wherever and do you know what they would say, " Manze kuna jam huku JKI, katuwezi fika huku, hata nyinyi mliona, chukueni tu hii thao thao, na mfike nai." Translation," You guys saw the traffic, there is no way we could have reached JKIA, just take this one thousand shillings so it can take you to Nairobi," that time you will be somewhere like Lokichokigia which happens to be somewhere in the Northern part of Kenya and has less air traffic! To make matters worse they would tell you how it is a favor they are giving you that a thousand shillings since they have made a loss.
It would be worse during high traffic as they would divert all aeroplanes to that destination and hike air fares!
Can you imagine what else they would do?
