Was perusing the euphoniously named “United Really Sucks” website the other day when I came upon a sucky story indeed (we discovered the site thanks to the fine folks at Consumerist). Note: the author is an anonymous blogger. Just so we know where we are.

Anyway, it seems a Good Samaritan took a friend’s cat to the Sacramento airport to ship it to this friend, who’d flown ahead to Denver (friend was in the process of moving, you see).

Anyway, much merriment ensued at the United counter, where Good Sam was told he had the wrong sort of carrier (he didnt), that the cat’s paperwork was not in order (it was), and on and on and on. Cat finally flew out 2-days later. Did the cat survive the journey? We’re left hanging on that point, but we do know Sam says United will never get anymore of his business.

The cat’s name? Again, we’re left in the dark. Could it have been Branson? Southwest? We at Standard Upright Position can only speculate…

Over at Nepal Airlines, they were having trouble with one of their planes; according to a BBC report, it may have had something to do with electrical problems. Anyway, it led to postponement of a number of flights in recent weeks. What to do?

Sacrifice a couple of goats, that’s what.

And that’s what they did, right in front of the plane at Kathmandu Airport. The aircraft has since resumed its regular schedule of flights.

Is this something the folks at Newark and LaGuardia need to know about?