A wing, a prayer, and a new airline?

I've been saying for some time now that we need a diocesan helicopter. You know, to save us from traffic angst before "important" meetings. Plus, think how the local news would love it when a purple helicopter landed in your church parking lot and our bishop emerged for the visitation. It's not only cool, it's evangelistic.

Turns out I wasn't thinking big enough. Pope Benedict, in between re-writing the afterlife and restoring Latin, has decided to launch an airline. I am not making this up.

Maybe we need an Anglican airline. Heathrow and Gatwick are both fairly miserable places to fly into. Maybe we could have direct flights from the US to Canterbury or Lindisfarne. Naturally, the flight would feature good food, prayer books in the seatback pockets, and red doors on the planes. The biggest shift would be rethinking our seating preference. In airplanes, you want to sit as close to the front as possible. Do you think Episcopalians could make that shift?

Now is the perfect time. Our Presiding Bishop is just the person to lead us in this new direction.