The Aviation Blog
A guy named Mark Malkoff recently just started a crazy journey. He’s traveling across the US, continually being on a plane for one month, only getting off to change to a different plane at an airport. During the whole trip he’ll solely be flying with AirTran.
You can follow his journey on Twitter and markonairtran.com
Mark Malkoff is already known for living in an Ikea store for a week.
This summer the world’s first flying hotel will take off! The aircraft called “Hotelicopter” - a custom-built helicopter, actually the largest helicopter ever produced, will feature 18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience. On June 26th, 2009 the Hotelicopter will start to its 14 day Inaugural Summer Tour to/from New York - via Charleston, Freeport/Bahamas, Montego Bay/Jamaica, Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic, Nassau/Bahamas, Miami.
A California Tour and European Tour will follow in July.
Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you’d expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available as well.
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More on http://www.hotelicopter.com
Happy April Fools’ Day! 
Virgin Atlantic is celebrating its 25th birthday with some awesome TV ad 
Probably the world’s funniest passenger complaint letter ever was sent recently to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic. The passenger complaining about the quality of catering and in-flight entertainment was on flight VS351 from Mumbai to London Heathrow on 7th December 2008.
According to the Telegraph, Virgin’s Director of Corporate Communications confirmed that Sir Richard Branson had telephoned the author of the letter and had thanked him for his “constructive if tongue-in-cheek” email.
Someone has put together a video of this. It’s just hilarious!
Read the full letter at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/
Some funny video I found on Youtube … “Don’t judge too quickly!”
Delta recently published a new funny Planeguage video, called Domino. Let the seat reclining war begin!
For more videos, visit the Delta Air Lines Blog.
I just found this incredible video on YouTube.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, like myself - Delta Flight 6499, JFK to DFW on June 25 2007 - sitting SEVEN HOURS on the tarmac… unbelievable.
Today I’ve found some funny kind of “aviation” video.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a….pig?? This holiday season, you may find yourself flying with pigs! Proving that pigs really can fly, Capital One put six giant pigs into flight today to make a point about its “too good to be true” features of the new rewards money market account. The pigs are taking flight on the exterior of a Skybus Airline A319 passenger jet, and the plane will fly passengers nationwide across the US for six months.
The Capital One flying pig plane features six giant flying pig illustrations, adorned with bomber jackets, scarves and aviator goggles. Each of the pigs is approximately 10 feet high with a wingspan of 13 feet. For the next six months, flights on the Capital One Rewards Money Market pig plane will be available to the public on regularly scheduled Skybus Airline routes.
Capital One Financial Corporation’s new Rewards Money Market account earns consumers travel miles for saving money instead of spending it. The commercial jet will travel across the sky as a larger-than-life reminder that smart saving (putting your pennies in a Capital One Rewards Money Market account instead of a piggy bank) can really take you places. “Many consumers think that a product that rewards you for saving sounds too good to be true,” said Pam Girardo, spokesperson for Capital One Direct Banking. “So we decided to drive home the message in a visual way. If customers think they’ll earn rewards for saving money ‘when pigs fly,’ then we’ll put pigs in flight!”.
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