On the news radar this week came this article about a pilot and a flight attendant, arrested naked in the woods, where they had gone to go do it. This highlights the important issue of the difficulty airline pilots have joining the mile high club … well, no it doesn’t. It’s just a silly article. […]
UK’s Daily Mirror reports today that sex drug Viagra could help travelers recover from jet lag. This works on west-to-east travel, and so far has been proven to work on hamsters:
Experiments on hamsters found they climbed on to wheels 25 to 50 per cent faster if they were given the sex drug after having their […]
Friday is world-wide No Pants day. That makes it an opportunity for the thousands flying tomorrow: leave your pants in your luggage and go no-pants on the airplane.
More info at www.nopantsday.com
Did she mile-high it or didn’t she? A Qantas Airlines flight attendant was suspended after an alleged in-air tryst with actor Ralph Fiennes.
From her lips:
“Whilst conversing with Mr. Fiennes … during my break I expressed a need to go to the toilet,” she wrote in a statement to her Qantas bosses (via Australia’s Daily Telegraph). […]
From the Mile High Club news wire:
A California couple are facing federal charges after allegedly refusing to stop “overt sexual activity” on a flight to Raleigh, North Carolina.
I don’t know who’s more at fault here: Southwest Airlines, the Raleigh airport police, or the couple. According to the article, the couple got rude with the […]
This piece of news lands right in the heart of awesome … my only worry is will soaring gas prices kill this sport? Heck no, this is America. It’s NASCAR in the sky, it’s rocket racing. The exhibition event launches October of next year, and they say the sport league will start for reals in […]
From the wire: New Company Launches With Aim of Colonizing Mars (after Sept. 26 use this link, because yahoo’s will be busted). No joke. They think they can get people up there by 2025 … though, judging by this quote from their leader (and the fact they live in Florida), they might be more than a little crazy. Not that crazy’s bad or anything. Here’s the quote: “If you’ve got freedom in your heart, courage to face the unknown, and discipline to deliver, contact us, and perhaps we can realize our dreams together.”
Would you be interested in getting involved (or do you know someone you would like to see move to a different planet)? Check out the group’s web site here.
Hey, in case you didn’t know, Flight Club is an online community for air travelers. Flight Club (the parent of this blog) has online tools that help members meet other members on airplanes and in airports — basically, we’re fun people that make travel more exciting. Business travelers, recreational travelers, if you fly for fun or for work, if you fly just once a year, Flight Club has a spot for you.
Membership is booming, so if you haven’t thought about joining before, then now is a good time. Registration takes about a minute and you can do it at this page. It’s free, it’s a fun site, uh huh oh yeah.
Virgin Atlantic Airways , yes, they have a sense of humor. It’s good to see large corporations with a sense of humor, so I can give them a pass on their latest promo: Who’s the top Jetrosexual. You read that right.
They just coined the worst coined phrase.
But, like we know, they have a sense of humor. They came up with the eleven commandments of Jetrosexuals. Here they are (written in regular english, not that “thou shalt” speech they have on their site):
I was thinking of putting together an online poll that allows you to rate how many of these you match up with. Stay tuned.
Sure, they were trying for a catchy headline. PhoneScoop.com put together a comprehensive piece on the state of cell phone use in the skies, and they called it “The New Mile High Club.” That implies that cell phone users on airplanes … okay, you get the connection.
I hate to see the good name of the Mile High Club smutted with references to cell phone use. The MHC is for people who have the courage and the kahunas to get it on in-flight.