Betty White (The Golden Girls) and others star in a hilarious “old school” safety video from (who else?) Air New Zealand!
Betty White (The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland), Gavin Macleod (The Love Boat) and Jimmy Weldon (The Yogi Bear Show) star in a hilarious “old school” safety video from (who else?) Air New Zealand! Continue reading “Betty White stars in an “old school” Air New Zealand safety video”
31 years ago, day for day, Air New Zealand flight TE901, a DC-10 with 259 passengers and crew, crashed on Mount Erebus, Antarctica, during a sightseeing trip. I wasn’t born back then, and it was a disaster that occurred thousands of miles away from my present location. The only images that come to my mind are the pieces of wreckage on the white snow.
That was until Laydon M., airodyssey.net visitor like you, brought to my attention the poster on your right… It shows the dates of the sightseeing trips including November 28, 1979. That’s when the disaster occurred. It was like seeing a timetable showing a flight number that was, later, involved in an accident and retired. Kind of eerie.
Airline safety demonstrations can be boring, even when the video is pretty. That’s why, a few years ago, I could never imagine that such videos could go viral. The latest one is, of course…
The dancing Filipina flight attendants on a Cebu Pacific Air flight, showing seatbelts, oxygen masks and life vests while “Just Dance” from Lady Gaga and “California Gurls” from Katy Perry booms in the background! Wow! What a way to get people’s attention! Read more… (3 more safety demos)
Some airlines are ready to go very far to convince their passengers that their fares have “nothing to hide” and include everything from checked baggage to refreshments onboard. Continue reading “Air New Zealand – Nothing to hide”
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