> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:56 PM Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com >
> wrote:
>     I think passengers would have to be pretty desperate for
>     overbooking to lead to a Free Trader trip. Transpose it to the
>     current world: You've just been bumped off your flight from Los
>     Angeles to San Jose, and a disreputable looking character sidles
>     up to you and says "I have a Piper Cub, ready to go...same price
>     as they were going to charge you." And then consider that in the
>     Traveller scenario, you'd be stuck with this person and who knows
>     what kind of other crew members for a full week, dealing with
>     whatever they consider adequate food and hygiene.
>
>     Some passengers are in fact going to be that desperate (or crazy,
>     or adventurous), but I think most of us would choose to wait for
>     the next regular commercial flight in both cases, but especially
>     the Traveller case.

Actually, airlines are a *bad* analogy. Mostly because of the fact
that they run on schedules set by much faster communication.

The Free Trader bit is intended to be a direct transpostion of tramp
freighters into space.

Even now there are folks who will take trips on such. You get to see
a lot of backwater ports and other interesting places without cattle
car aspect of cruise ships.
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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