Friday, August 19, 2011

Flying wonders down under

As though commercial flight wasn’t harrowing enough, two antipodean airlines are pushing the envelope: Qantas features John Travolta dressed as a pilot to bookend their safety announcement video.


And Air New Zealand has tarted up their video with Richard Simmons in sequins.


Travolta seems superfluous; Simmons is just plain OTT. (And, BTW—watch the ANZ video all the way to the end.)

So no change there.

Still—I’m wondering why the Aussies and Kiwis felt the need to import talent for these announcements. Haven’t they got enough home-grown loop-the-loops of their own?




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