Mile High Club remains common goal
Traveling by airline has long lost its one-time romantic appeal but a new survey by Skyscanner shows that almost half of surveyed passengers maintain an old trend: what the site calls “flyrting.”
“The survey of over 1,000 travellers revealed that 45 per cent of passengers admitted to flirting whilst on board a flight, with a third leading to a rendezvous following the flight, and 8 per cent of them resulting in a relationship,” the site says.
Said Skyscanner employee Karin Noble, a former cabin crew member:
“More and more people are now travelling by air so it’s no surprise that flights have become a place to flirt. After all, you are sitting next to someone for an hour or more, and the fact that you’re both travelling to the same place means you already have something in common.”
Alcohol also heightens the relaxed and friendly mood for such encounters, she adds.
“More shockingly, for a small minority the flirtations may actually lead to membership of the infamous Mile High Club; a separate survey found that 20 per cent of travellers have joined this risqué association and half of these had done so with a stranger they met on a flight,” said Skyscanner.
For those that are not members, however, it certainly still seems to appeal with a massive 95 per cent of those surveyed admitting they would like to join the Mile High Club.
By David Wilkening
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