I absolutely love this, and now can’t get it out of my head…
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It is amazing to read back your Turkish Airlines music article, love it! I very much enjoyed their Lego safety video; It's a party in the sky with Turkish Airlines. Ah the memories.
This is fantastic and is unlikely to leave my mind all day! The original was a huge hit about 7 years before you were born, Lucky. I think you were an 18 or 19 year old kid when I met you in 2008 on Randy Petersen's Open Skies free weekend trip to Paris.
Very creative.
Side note: Mad props to the employee that was able to kick pac-man (or whatever it was) at eye level when they said "zapping gems like an arcade space fight." My hip began hurting just watching that. HA!
Well done Alaska—catchy and creative! I think it also captures the travel optimism we are all trying to feel going into next year. Having flown Alaska three times this year, I certainly feel safe flying with them and their great crews.
Ben: I so disagree with your comments about the Virgin America safety video. My initial reaction to this video was that AS was trying to imitate the Toddrick Hall style but only reinforced how older and more stodgy AS is than VX was.
I never tired of watching the Toddrick Hall VX safety videos. they were the most entertaining.
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@Ben, oh boy you never heard of the Safety Dance? That was such a huge club hit in its day. Which, sadly for me as I "out" my age, was in my youth. We had a whole routine that my friends and I used to do when we were at Boston's infamous "Spit" club (yup, you get the name right) and we hit the floor when the song came on. This is retro for sure, but in a fun, creative and IMO very cheeky way. Kudos to Alaska!
Call me jaded however I thought it was a poor budget imitation of the Virgin Safety video
It wasn't as entertaining as I expected and seemed forced and awkward
A for effort. Alaska is friendly but old and stodgy
I'd be far happier to seeing everyone employed again and the airline honoring its confirmed system-wide upgrades for elites.Alaska really made a number of deeply disappointing choices during the pandemic some of which I understand temporarily.I won't be pursuing elite status again after 3 years with them sadly
I might fly them on some rare occasions in the future if the restore non stops/routes and return full size aircraft as well as take care of the customer better as they did pre pandemic
I love Alaska, but “fun” isn’t a word I’d use to describe them. Until now, I guess. Good for them.
My mother flew SEA to SNA today and the flight attendants on her flight were not wearing masks. The people sitting directly around her also not wearing masks and no one asked them to put one on. Very disappointing! We flew to JFK on Jet Blue and home on United - 100% mask compliance on both flights.
Cebu Pacific actually danced a safety dance years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjapY4U0-HY (the male version)
@Lucky, fun video, but the fact that you'd never heard The Safety Dance before made me feel very old indeed!