The naked truth about the airlines
Airline news lately has been based on nudity or the motto: Nothing to Hide. Examples:
—A New York man disrobed in front of 148 passengers on a flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles.
—New Zealand’s national airline started showing a controversial in-flight safety video where flight attendants are wearing nothing but body paint.
In the naked man incident, one blogger commented: “ The Flight Attendants were professional and did their best to try and get the man under control, but in the end they had no option but to restrain him and land.” The plane was diverted and the man was taken into custody still naked.
Other bloggers commented: “It’s never the good looking one that gets naked…I wish some cute college guy would do this…My air vent wasn’t working. THAT should be the crime.”
In the other incident, the “Bare Essentials of Safety” received 1.2 million You Tube viewings in just four days.
In the video, three cabin staff and a pilot, all in fully body paint applied to look like their uniforms, talk viewers through the aircraft safety procedures.
The body idea is part of a series of television ads for the airline, which include the promise, “Our Fares Have Nothing to hide.”
The FBI is holding the naked USAir man and an investigation is continuing. Passengers (148 were on the plane) on the continuing flight were given a new announcement that included a “reminder to everybody to please keep your clothing on.”
Report by David Wilkening
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