So, as pprbckwrtr wrote, Ed took a plane to reach NY.
Above you see the charter flight he was on. Ed's only luggage was a couple dozen cans of discount Beer, but the metal detector went crazy and he was too scared to lose his precious booze effects, he refused to send them as luggage.
So he decided to take those few cans with him anyway, but inside himself - no big deal, after all, he's knwon worldwide as a worthless fucking wino.
So after he got loaded, he got on the plane and started staring at the window in the pilot room, when the plane was going to take off.
In Ed's world, everything is still pretty much normal