Virgin Drops Loose Change From In-Flight "Entertainment"

Even though I previously favored Virgin, they've dropped rather far down my list of carriers. They only removed Loose Change under pressure.

Score one for the ill winds chilling dissent.

The radio guy who spoke to them mentioned a point to a Virgin executive that I mentioned yesterday-- airlines usually don't show films about plane crashes, plane hijackings, etc. Even when such films are shown, they tend to be censored and cut -- crashes go from graphically depicted to merely implied.

And yet Virgin was willing to make a big-ass exception for Loose Change, wasn't it?

As I snarked, perhaps they felt the film would be reassuring as it instructs the public that the most notorious plane crashes in human history were not commercial passenger-carrying jets at all but empty military duplicates piloted by Cylon cyborg technology.

So no worries on that score -- after all, your stewardress doesn't look like a Cylon, does she? (Though I'm reliably informed that sometimes it's very hard to tell...)

Thanks to Sinistar.

Posted by: Ace at 02:47 PM

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your stewardress doesn't look like a Cylon, does she? (Though I'm reliably informed that sometimes it's very hard to tell...)

The last time I flew, my stewardess looked just like Dean Stockwell.

Posted by: EC at May 03, 2007 02:55 PM (mAhn3)

The last time I flew, my stewardess looked just like Dean Stockwell

Oh boy!

Posted by: mesablue at May 03, 2007 02:56 PM (DzeyU)

3 Virgins? Entertainment? Is this Jihad Airlines?

Posted by: John F Not Kerry at May 03, 2007 03:15 PM (eXdIs)

Goddammit I am not a stewardess. I am trained in first aid and inflight safety! I took 2 years of specialized training on all of the aircraft my airline flies!

So, did you want the chicken, or the fish?

Posted by: the Flight Attendant at May 03, 2007 03:26 PM (pzen5)

5 I have been on Virgin Airlines a few times. Was this movie going to be played to everyone or was it one of the movies offered on their entertainment system that one would have to choose?

If it is merely an offering, I don't see the big deal. As long as they put a disclaimer or simply a summary. Everyone knows 9/11 involved airplane crashes. Seeing this film might actually put people on edge in a good way, suspicious of abnormal activity on board.

If it is on screens everyone can see, then it was a dumb-ass idea.

Posted by: WesB at May 03, 2007 04:09 PM (oN5bO)

6 Check out the weasely non-apology statement by Virgin.

Screw them. Boycott.

Posted by: someone at May 03, 2007 04:10 PM (TXnhk)

7 They were the only trans-Atlantic carrier I ever flew that was noticeably better -- better food, better movies. Before September 11, they even had real metal utensils. Everybody else's coach flights are about the same. I stopped flying them because all their flights from Boston are red-eye and land about eight in the morning.

This sounds like a stupid, out of character choice on their part.

Posted by: S. Weasel at May 03, 2007 04:16 PM (MecJo)

8 I still haven't gotten a reply to my e-mail with the Screw Loose Change link, and somehow I don't think I will. But I'm glad they've backed down.

Posted by: max at May 03, 2007 04:34 PM (osJRp)

9 They backed down because "some people might be offended" (not exact qt), not because it's evil, dishonest, transparently stupid bullshit.

If they want the truther market, they can have it.

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