Air Canada bans Salman Rushdie

March 18, 2002 9:48 AM

Air Canada bans Salman Rushdie because "the extra security required for him to fly could mean long delays for other passengers." Extra security? You mean it isn't at maximum already?
posted by laz-e-boy (5 comments total)

This is the same response they had before in response to an FAA security directive issued 5 days before Sept. 11. They're just taking the easy route.
posted by transient at 10:12 AM on March 18, 2002

When Salman was in the Canadas:
Let my literai fly!
Grounded and forced to take the bus,
Let my literai fly!
posted by will at 10:40 AM on March 18, 2002

Do you ever think he sits around and thinks "Damn, if I had just not written that one part..."
posted by bob bisquick at 11:14 AM on March 18, 2002

"I must cling with all my might to my soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown insticts, no matter how great the storm."

- Salman Rushdie
posted by will at 11:38 AM on March 18, 2002

> You mean it isn't at maximum already?

Hardly. "Maximum" is where all the planes sit on the ground, empty.
posted by jfuller at 2:49 PM on March 18, 2002