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12:30 March 2nd, 2009

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Posted by: Robert Basler
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Blog Guy, you give great travel advice, and I need some. I just bought tickets on a budget Tibetan airline. They were very cheap, and now I’m wondering what to expect in the way of quality.

I guess it depends on how picky you are.

Um, why do you ask?

That airline doesn’t really own any planes. They use a more theoretical method of travel in which passengers get on a very fast horse, which gallops at breathtaking speed toward a mountain precipice. When it gets there, the horse stops suddenly.

And what happens to the passengers?

If you really don’t know, then rent some Looney Toons cartoons. I recommend Daffy Duck in “Himalaya Shmimalaya!”

So does this method of air travel actually work?

Yes. Briefly.

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Above: Tibetans ride their horses during a stunt performance to celebrate a traditional Tibetan New Year in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region February 27, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

Below: Participant in a Tibetan horse racing festival in Shangri-La, Yunnan province, China, in a 2008 file photo. REUTERS/John Ruwitch

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Do they at least give you a parachute?

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