We all remember adjoining passengers we’d rather forget. Crying babies, 700 lb. arm rest overflows, barfing alcoholics and tobacco-breath addicts. Therefore, if our fondest history fantasy could be answered, what memorably pleasant seating companions would we choose?

To be happily shoulder-to-shoulder on long red-eyes or cross-ocean journeys to London or Beijing. Consider:

1. Jesus: If a prayer for safety becomes necessary, who better?
2. Abe Lincoln: We’d discuss politics, tho the poor guy in the smooshed-in seat in front of long, lanky Abe never stops whining. 3. Moses: If the pilot got lost, this old prophet could lead us to the Promised Landing.
4. Enrico Caruso: Imagine the great acoustics in coach class when he belts out Vesti la Giubba.
5. Judy Garland: Listen to her warble Over The Rainbow, as the aircraft flies over a rainbow.
6. William Shakespeare: We’d recite to be or not to be, along with other lines we hated memorizing in high school.
7. Mel Brooks: We’d discuss plans for his next crazy dictator film, Springtime For The Donald.
8. Mary Shelley: We’d discuss how she thought up scary Frankenstein more than a century before Trump started stumping the land. (Sorry, Donald, just kidding)
9. Ella Fitzgerald: When she sings Someone To Watch Over Me and Blue Skies, we’ll know the flight will be OK.
10. Gene Kelly: We’d turn on the overhead sprinklers, then dance and sing along the aisle to Singin’ In The Rain.