[publius911]

"Good news is after ascending, we will be above any fowl weather."
I think duckies don't go up to 30,000 feet.

Neither can airliners, when the nasties are higher than 50,000 feet.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, if the cabin is pierced at too high an altitude, and it loses pressurization, the passengers may lose consciousness before the airliner can safely descend below 10,000 feet.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Or worse...