Looking at an airport to function can help you pass the time while waiting for a flight. As you watch the orchestra of people and vehicles preparing a plane for its flight, a luggage tractor will surely join the effort.
Bearskin Airlines at Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario, Canada, has a very strange way of carrying luggage: it hangs its luggage carts from broken neon lights, an economy sold with Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth badges – yet the same car. These seem to be since 1996-99 generation.
These images come from a Twitter epic thread from airline passengers. If you need a good laugh today, I highly recommend it. I’m used to seeing pirated Dodge Neons doing stupid stunts on a Gambler 500, which does not carry out serious operations at an international airport. Still, here we are.
I like! Apart from Neon, which clearly lacks a roof and doors, the airline seems to have two more with service bodies for golf carts grafted on the back. Woah. Once I stopped laughing, I realized that this actually made sense. Hear me out.
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A decent luggage tractor like this TUG MA-50 it costs a lot of money. These are heavy machines designed to withstand heavy loads, many abuses and years of service.
A Neon – especially a beaten one – costs a small part of the price of a luggage tractor. These are cars that an airline can buy $ 500. The destroyed ones are probably even cheaper. Take an alternate saw on the roof and install a towing hook on the back: Arm! You have a luggage tractor.
This is reducing the airline’s costs to the extreme. A cut Neon is not nearly as powerful or as rugged as a real luggage car, but airline passengers have reported seeing a small fleet of things over the years. So, they seem to be doing the job.
I like to see ordinary passenger vehicles adapted for aviation use, although certainly seeing a Neon transport around luggage is definitely a first for me. They remind me of 4×4 vans cut in half and adapted to pull floating planes around.