vagabond

I know this has been out for a while. This whole video makes me happy and want to put on my dancing mask.

Alaska Safety Dance - YouTube

MikeMike2

At least one thing carried over from vx...

mike734

Do a search for Alaska Airlines advertisements over the years. They were winning awards for creative and funny ADs when Branson was worried about zits.

MikeMike2

hard pass, but feel free to show me what you mean

Mudhen200

That just made me chuckle. "Hard Pass". Such a strange way of saying "no thank you" or "I'm not interested".
Followed by "show me". As in, I must be spoon fed to learn. But if you are a "hard pass", as in I'm really not interested, then why would you then ask to be spoon fed the material? Younglings today are such curious creatures.
Alaska Airlines history of entertaining and creative TV advertising does indeed go back to when your parents were probably in high school. But you will never know or care because you decided to take a "hard pass" and there is no-one around to spoon feed you the you tube links.

MikeMike2

Cool story Hansel...

I appreciate you dating yourself gramps. It was a hard pass on taking my time to prove their marginally relevant point. If you don’t think that video was reminiscent of previous vx productions, like my original sarcastic comment would imply to a reasonable person, you’ve got bigger problems.

VirginEskimo

It’s a bit ironic that the featured artist is “Men Without Hats” which is a pretty accurate description of the Airbus pilots on property. Rumor has it that when the pricey Hollywood firm that produced the VX singing and dancing inflight safety video were offered the use of our employees they took a “hard pass”. I don’t tend to have an opinion on these things but I think it shows. I’m just relieved that no VX video ever featured a dancing pilot (actual employee or not). Now Alaska joins SWA in the dubious distinction of having actual pilots from their list dance for a quirky video in uniform. Sorry, I guess I’m no fun but that’s cringey to watch.

it’s nice that we can argue about inconsequential things every once in a while rather than contentious sociopolitical issues or whether retreading a sixty year old airplane is a good idea. Happy 2021!

rickair7777

I'd normally tend to agree, but they pulled it off so well that I think it was a net positive. The video's tailored to a specific audience, and it's not us.

The shades on the pilots were a good idea, for anonymity.

echelon

To the public, sure. He was more than happy to out himself on our company homepage

Flyin1500

Sorta. We had four of our ITM's "featured" in the original VX safety demo. They got less than 1 sec of air time because they didn't have their SAG card. We now continue to our regularly scheduled program.............