Smokers Express: The Concept Airline

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Smokers Express: The Concept Airline That Would Have Encouraged Inflight Cigarette Use

BYNICOLE KYLIE

PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO

Steaks, burgers, free cigarettes, and Lotto tickets – the airline that never came to be.

 

In 1993, William Walts and former Walt Disney executive, George “Mickey” Richardson introduced their airline, Smokers Express. Upset by the non-smoking policy of major American airlines, the duo conceived the idea of an airline that would be favorable to smokers.

 

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[BrightonCorgi]

OKC is a difficult place to fly to and would've been welcomed by me for the weekly flights I use to fly for years.  Easier to fly Europe than OKC if you live in the North East.

I think a membership airline that is adult only with better food and drink could work.  Especially for domestic business travel.

[porkchop]

Early 90s was too soon. Cigarette companies, through decades of lying about killing people, bestowed an insurmountable negative stigma on anything smoking themed. Plus, the government beating the habit like a rented mule. Nobody in their right mind would invest.

[BrightonCorgi]

23 minutes ago, porkchop said:

Early 90s was too soon. Cigarette companies, through decades of lying about killing people, bestowed an insurmountable negative stigma on anything smoking themed. Plus, the government beating the habit like a rented mule. Nobody in their right mind would invest.

Beating on tobacco is the one thing every world government agrees on.