See an airport work can help you pass the time while waiting for a flight. As you watch the orchestra of people and vehicles prepare a plane for your flight, a luggage tractor is sure to join the effort.
Bearskin Airlines, at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario, Canada, has a very strange way of carrying luggage: it attaches luggage carts to pirated Neons, an econobox that sells with Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth badges. , even though it is the same car. Looks like they are since 1996-99 generation.
These images come our way Twitter’s epic thread of airline passengers. If you need a good laugh today I recommend it. I’m used to seeing Dodge Neons hacked doing stupid tricks Gambler 500, not to make serious operations in an international airport. However, here we are.
I love it! Aside from the Neon clearly missing from its roof and doors, it looks like the airline has two more with golf cart service bodies grafted on the back. Woah. Once I stopped laughing, I realized that this made some sense. Listen to me.
G / O Media may receive a commission
A decent luggage tractor like this TUG MA-50 it’s very expensive. These are high-strength machines designed to withstand heavy loads, many abuses and years of service.
A neon, especially a high school one, costs a small fraction of the price of a luggage tractor. These are cars for which an airline can buy $ 500. The shattered are probably even cheaper. Bring an alternative saw to the roof and install a trailer hitch on the back: Boom! You have a luggage tractor.
It is about reducing the costs of the airlines to the absolute extreme. A trimmed Neon isn’t as strong or as sturdy as a real luggage tractor, but airline passengers have reported seeing a small fleet of things over the years. So apparently they do the job.
I love seeing regular passenger vehicles adapted for air use, although seeing a neon pull around luggage is definitely the first. These kinds of memories remind me of those 4×4 vans cut in half and adapted to throw floating planes around.