AMAZING: Alaska Airlines Safety Dance Gets A Oneworld Twist

This is pretty cool. Love when people from different airlines collaborate like this. Reminds me of all the flight attendants making the "No Rush" tiktok videos which definitely put a smile on my face during the early days of the pandemic

Great video! I like how that one exec didn't get the memo to wear a mask

Akbar Al Baker probably didn't participate because he wasn't allowed to rock the Keytar in the Video

The new Malaysia Airlines uniforms are outstanding!

I hope Men Without Hats are getting royalties for this.

I love it!

That was wonderful to watch, and touches various emotions. Thanks, Lucky!

The YouTube version is slightly different than the Instagram one on the AS and oneworld accounts. First airline shown on the IG version is AA after the AS Flight attendants. Not the same for the YouTube version

Was my comment removed because it ran afoul of the commenting guidelines, or because I was responding to a comment that ran afoul of the commenting guidelines?

In any case, I'm glad the comment I responded to was removed.

@Nate nate what did it say?

@Ivan, I'm going to leave to Ben and his team to choose to respond to your comment. As I said, I agree with the decision to remove it, so no reason to describe the inappropriate comment. Kudos to them for quickly enforcing their commenting guidelines.

This is so great. Who thought of this and to pull it off on launch day. So good!

Hey Ben,

Would love to read more from you about your Calif trip report!

I know know what BA was busy doing that was oh so very important.

It's a great video, but the irony is that Alaska doesn't have any monitors in places to play them on....big miss there.

*planes, not places

SO much fun....Used to love the kicky Air France one too!

@Gus - sure, but having done mileage runs on Virgin America during the AS/VX acquisition, I can say that I was very quickly tiring of the VX safety video. As much as I enjoy the current video, I think it would wear on me( and probably other ff's) to see/hear it every time they boarded an AS plane.

@ Nate nate -- It was removed because it was in response to a comment that was deleted, not because you did anything wrong. You made a good point, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention.

Don't forget cathay pacific was in it too!!!

I suspect that somewhere out there is a video of "Big Al" Baker doing some kind of dancing.

This was very cool. It is great to see airline executives display a sense of humor.

Akbar Al Baker deserves his own video!

Def a fun deal. I wonder if Ivan (Men Without Hats) cut a special deal for use of their 80’s hit.

OW is was the best of the 3 big alliances and still is with the addition of AS.

@Barry, BA is the lady with red hair and glasses. She seems to be enjoying herself.

I can't even imagine Akbar AlBaker dancing in his dishdash

Actually, at 0:40 there are some Cathay Pacific employees too!

@Barry

BA were in it. Left pane @ 49secs

love the blue shade of the uniforms worn by Srilankan Air FAs 🙂

Awesome video.......... No all we need is people to keep wearing masks for a little while longer, even after getting vaccinated, so we can get back to normal faster!! The fools that DO NOT wear masks, such as the recent spring breaker mobs across the globe, are going to only prolong the Covid-19 mess!! I hope they stay off of airplanes, or try flying w/o a mask and get banned FOREVER from flying again!! That will teach those fools a lesson..... I hope they enjoy Greyhound! Hahahaha.

Thanks Ben for sharing this immediately as I haven't seen it on tv yet.

Very cool video and an awesome way to welcome AS into One World.

I do agree with another commenter though what planes is this shown on? I fly AS a few times a year and have yet to see a video safety demo. But granted I am Midwest based so maybe have just been unlucky.

@ Shawn, AS does not have video monitors as a rule, except for some of the old VX planes, which they are sending to the boneyard/ending the leases!! All AS planes have GoGo Entertainment systems where you can stream 1,000s of choices for free on your own device!!

I really disagree with Alaska joining OneWorld. Coordination between airlines as huge as AA and AS should have been scrutinized even further, and potentially blocked.

Watch this space; Alaska is likely on the road of being acquired by AA.

And Qantas employees too!

Ridiculous videos, both of them!!

@ Shawn - they play it before on your own device before streaming anything over wifi.

I know it’s a blog...can only expect so much. But, wow, the negative people...how about you just enjoy enjoy your cave? This is a happy post!

@Ted.. No, they have been wearing the same uniform for quite a while now. There was a plan changing their uniforms couple of years back.. but it didn't materialise.

"The only thing that could make this video any better is if Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker participated, because I feel like he’d have some great dance moves." Seriously .

@Abdul

Not in this video, I think, but MH did change their male FA uniform from the matching, and individual all green to the current dreary boring and totally uninviting grey. Now they don't even look like the same crew, when they are together. How stupid. MH please bring back the matching green, and signature brocade lapelled cabin jackets which were so stylish.

They don't play safety videos. They do them old school. This is a commercial.