Cheers for the replies, just what I am looking for, I am thinking that this would be better set in, say the 1970's when things were less regulated and air travel (though perhaps not cargo) was still a little glamourous.
The idea at the moment is to set this in a small cargo firm with a couple of smaller planes and a rather well used 747 freighter (ok, can only be so old in the seventies, but can be well used), I am currently planning out a kind of storyboard and putting the characters together so I suppose thats where you chaps (and ladies, though I dont imagine there are that many in cargo ?), for instance, on a 747 freighter, how many people would be on a flight, I am thinking Captain, First officer, Engineer and somebody to supervise loading and unloading, I suppose plus various authorised (and unauthorised) stowaways. I will add in parts about the smaller aircraft as well
Real life descriptions of some of the Sh1t holes areound the world, Lagos sounds fun fromt he posts I have read on here !
Characters, what is the average Cargo Captain like, are they frustrated and what to fly passengers or do they do it out of choice to avoid carting holidaymakers around.
I suppose part of this is getting approval from yourselves, I dont want to nick someones story, obviously names changed and whatever without some kind of recognition.
It may well be crap but, but I will run excerpts past you. I have been looking for a "vehicle" for a while but have not come up with something that hasnt been done to death or not had that much scope for humour, this isnt going to be heavy going, probably 250/300 pages of light hearted easy reading with as many laughs as possible, without turning the characters into clowns, the situations and places should provide much of the material, plus the scrapes and situatiosn the crews get into in these far flung and sometimes dangerous places.
So, feel free to jump in and tell me how it should be, things like, would small cargo firm have three planes, one being a 747 ?