{"id":1280,"date":"2007-09-06T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/flying-the-sacrificial-skies.html"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:16:02","slug":"flying-the-sacrificial-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/flying-the-sacrificial-skies.html","title":{"rendered":"Flying the Sacrificial Skies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at Nepal&#8217;s state-run airlines are certainly &#8220;thinking outside the box&#8221; when it comes to battling the plague of problems\u2014late flights, older planes\u2014affecting the airline industry. Or maybe we should say, thinking outside the pen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSEIC47086020070904\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> reports that Nepal Airlines &#8220;sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircrafts.&#8221; The disabled plane, which is one of only 10 the airline owns, was causing troubling service delays.<br \/>\nReportedly, the technical problem is now fixed and the flights are running on time. The work of a gearhead or god? You decide.<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m not so big on animals sacrifices myself, I&#8217;ll gladly make a sacrifice of fine wine or the most expensive caviar, or my favorite cupcakes, to get a flight to arrive on time and with my luggage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at Nepal&#8217;s state-run airlines are certainly &#8220;thinking outside the box&#8221; when it comes to battling the plague of problems\u2014late flights, older planes\u2014affecting the airline industry. Or maybe we should say, thinking outside the pen. Reuters reports that Nepal Airlines &#8220;sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flying the Sacrificial Skies?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/flying-the-sacrificial-skies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flying the Sacrificial Skies?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Officials at Nepal&#8217;s state-run airlines are certainly &#8220;thinking outside the box&#8221; when it comes to battling the plague of problems\u2014late flights, older planes\u2014affecting the airline industry. 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