Showing posts with label Mile High Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mile High Club. Show all posts
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
No Sin On Singapore Airlines As They Ban the Mile High Club
According the BBC Singapore Airlines has "taken the unusual step of publicly asking passengers on its new Airbus A380 plane not to engage in any sexual activities." Why is that unusual? The first class area of the superjumbo contains 12 private suites complete with double beds ans aparently the suites are not sound-proofed.
Singapore have said It said it did not want anyone to offend other travellers or crew. They said,
"All we ask of customers, wherever they are on our aircraft, is to observe standards that don't cause offence to other customers and crew." Singapore Airlines took delivery of its first A380 earlier this month, with the first services between Singapore and Sydney was on 25 October. A further five aircraft are due to be delivered in 2008. What's the odds on people not taking any notice of their request.
Singapore have said It said it did not want anyone to offend other travellers or crew. They said,
"All we ask of customers, wherever they are on our aircraft, is to observe standards that don't cause offence to other customers and crew." Singapore Airlines took delivery of its first A380 earlier this month, with the first services between Singapore and Sydney was on 25 October. A further five aircraft are due to be delivered in 2008. What's the odds on people not taking any notice of their request.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Jamaica? No She Did It Of Her Own Accord
Of course the Flybe wine deal will not make it any easier for passengers to get drunk on board and to be fair their mostly short haul flights mean that fewer of their passengers are a problem through drink. Not so on a recent British Airways flight to Jamaica, the demon drink got a couple from Luton into big trouble. At least on this occasion it was a couple and not two strangers who had got acquainted at check-in. They were on board a Boeing 777 with around two hundred other passengers and after they were apparently caught ‘in the act’ they flew into a violent rage and the aircraft had to make an unscheduled stop in Bermuda.
They had paid £2000 each for their business class tickets to Kingston, Jamaica and were prepared to take full advantage on what was supposed to be a ten-hour flight. In business class the drinks just keep on coming, as most of us know getting a drink in economy can be about as difficult as selling The Big Issue outside the Ivy, and so it wasn’t long before they were fully fueled ready for action. This couple opted for the toilet rather than a public show, but the eagle eyed crew spotted them and after apparently banging on the lavatory door the couple were asked to go back to their seats. Tempers quickly became frayed and the crew was having their work cut out trying to calm things down. When matters became very heated even the Captain’s intervention failed to get things under control. Eventually the man involved had to be handcuffed – this may normally have been something he liked but on this occasion it made him even more cross, which is what prompted the stop in Bermuda. Here the two offending passengers were offloaded and then flown back to London. To make matters worse it was Gatwick and not even “Luton Airport.”
They had paid £2000 each for their business class tickets to Kingston, Jamaica and were prepared to take full advantage on what was supposed to be a ten-hour flight. In business class the drinks just keep on coming, as most of us know getting a drink in economy can be about as difficult as selling The Big Issue outside the Ivy, and so it wasn’t long before they were fully fueled ready for action. This couple opted for the toilet rather than a public show, but the eagle eyed crew spotted them and after apparently banging on the lavatory door the couple were asked to go back to their seats. Tempers quickly became frayed and the crew was having their work cut out trying to calm things down. When matters became very heated even the Captain’s intervention failed to get things under control. Eventually the man involved had to be handcuffed – this may normally have been something he liked but on this occasion it made him even more cross, which is what prompted the stop in Bermuda. Here the two offending passengers were offloaded and then flown back to London. To make matters worse it was Gatwick and not even “Luton Airport.”
Monday, July 16, 2007
Mile High Club Videos Anyone?
Apparently all new Air New Zealand aircraft are being fitted with security cameras so pilots can keep an eye on the cabin. The systems are meant to prevent potential terrorist hijacking threats and also act as evidence in cases of air rage. The President of the New Zealand Airline Pilots' Association Mark Rammell said the cameras were "the way of the future" because the protocol on leaving the flight deck had changed in the past few years.
How long before we're going to have the first case of a video recording of applicants for the Mile High Club appearing on Youtube?
How long before we're going to have the first case of a video recording of applicants for the Mile High Club appearing on Youtube?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sex is in the air....
Cheap I know but I going to start with the Mile High Club. But as someone once put it - Remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous?
Get any group of people talking about the airline business, and flying in general, and people will mention one of two things. Either it’s the great-lost baggage story or it’s the legendary mile high club. In all honesty there are few who readily admit to being a member of the club. Even those who are keen to brag of their membership are probably lying, and not just because there are, in reality, so few that have actually done it. The fact is that most commercial aircraft fly at closer to seven miles high. In order to be technically correct if you are a member of the mile high club then the chances are you will have needed to have ‘done it’ either during climb or in the descent, which means that you should have been wearing your seatbelt!
A recent survey found that around 9% of people admitted to having has sex on board a commercial airliner (it was an anonymous survey naturally). The respondents were evenly split between men and women, which challenges the traditional wisdom that men tend to brag and women tend to be modest when asked questions about sex. Before you start checking around you on your next flight to see if close to one in ten people are ‘at it’ don’t forget that only means that they may have done it on one occasion, not every time they fly!
What is it that makes talk of sexual exploits on board aircraft so fascinating? It’s possibly linked to the whole romance that used to be associated with flying. In the days when aircraft actually had proper bunk beds, and when air travel was the preserve of the very rich and the very famous; back then passengers were probably both. These days with air travel being more akin to getting on and off a bus the romance has very definitely gone out of flying.
Another aspect of the whole sex and travel routine is the single guy, and particularly the businessman who somehow thinks that every air stewardess, flight attendant, trolley dolly, call them what you like, is going to be instantly attracted to them. Watching lonely business travellers chatting up flight attendants is still one of the saddest sights to behold. New research shows that air stewardesses are facing increasing levels of harassment. Even the British Medical Journal has got in on the act claiming that passengers have pestered one in five stewardesses. The research was undertaken among 2,000 stewardesses who worked between 1965 and 1995 for Alitalia, the Italian airline. We will refrain from making any comment.
So who started it all, who were the Mile High pioneers?
‘The Club’ owes a huge debt to the pioneers of mid-air hanky panky, Lawrence Sperry and Mrs. Waldo Polk. In 1916 Sperry, a daredevil flyer and inventor of the autopilot, was giving flying lessons to Mrs. Polk, a wealthy New York socialite. They crashed in the waters of the South Bay and were found, naked, by two duck hunters. After the rescue Sperry claimed that the forces of the crash had divested them of their clothes. However that explanation was not universally accepted. One other point to note; Sperry was piloting a flying boat at the time, which of course proves that they were in at least one respect a badly named flying machine. As a footnote Sperry was killed flying a light aircraft (not a flying boat) across the English Channel a few years later.
Get any group of people talking about the airline business, and flying in general, and people will mention one of two things. Either it’s the great-lost baggage story or it’s the legendary mile high club. In all honesty there are few who readily admit to being a member of the club. Even those who are keen to brag of their membership are probably lying, and not just because there are, in reality, so few that have actually done it. The fact is that most commercial aircraft fly at closer to seven miles high. In order to be technically correct if you are a member of the mile high club then the chances are you will have needed to have ‘done it’ either during climb or in the descent, which means that you should have been wearing your seatbelt!
A recent survey found that around 9% of people admitted to having has sex on board a commercial airliner (it was an anonymous survey naturally). The respondents were evenly split between men and women, which challenges the traditional wisdom that men tend to brag and women tend to be modest when asked questions about sex. Before you start checking around you on your next flight to see if close to one in ten people are ‘at it’ don’t forget that only means that they may have done it on one occasion, not every time they fly!
What is it that makes talk of sexual exploits on board aircraft so fascinating? It’s possibly linked to the whole romance that used to be associated with flying. In the days when aircraft actually had proper bunk beds, and when air travel was the preserve of the very rich and the very famous; back then passengers were probably both. These days with air travel being more akin to getting on and off a bus the romance has very definitely gone out of flying.
Another aspect of the whole sex and travel routine is the single guy, and particularly the businessman who somehow thinks that every air stewardess, flight attendant, trolley dolly, call them what you like, is going to be instantly attracted to them. Watching lonely business travellers chatting up flight attendants is still one of the saddest sights to behold. New research shows that air stewardesses are facing increasing levels of harassment. Even the British Medical Journal has got in on the act claiming that passengers have pestered one in five stewardesses. The research was undertaken among 2,000 stewardesses who worked between 1965 and 1995 for Alitalia, the Italian airline. We will refrain from making any comment.
So who started it all, who were the Mile High pioneers?
‘The Club’ owes a huge debt to the pioneers of mid-air hanky panky, Lawrence Sperry and Mrs. Waldo Polk. In 1916 Sperry, a daredevil flyer and inventor of the autopilot, was giving flying lessons to Mrs. Polk, a wealthy New York socialite. They crashed in the waters of the South Bay and were found, naked, by two duck hunters. After the rescue Sperry claimed that the forces of the crash had divested them of their clothes. However that explanation was not universally accepted. One other point to note; Sperry was piloting a flying boat at the time, which of course proves that they were in at least one respect a badly named flying machine. As a footnote Sperry was killed flying a light aircraft (not a flying boat) across the English Channel a few years later.
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