2008-03-03

Flying in the nude



Fancy flying in the nude?
From this summer, you can.
German travel agency Ossiurlaub.de has started taking bookings for Europe's first nudist flight.The flight, from Erfurt to the Baltic island of Usedom, will begin in July.
55 passengers will be able to disrobe at altitude, although they will have to remain fully clothed until they board, and then put their clothes back on before disembarking.
The crew, sadly, will remain clothed for the duration of the flight - for safety reasons.
Managing director Enrico Hess said, brilliantly, "It's an unusual gap in the market.”
He went on to clarify that he doesn’t want people to “get the wrong idea”.
“It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air,” he said, perhaps with a shrug of his naked shoulders.
“We're a perfectly normal holiday company."
A few drawbacks spring to mind.
Have they thought about the seats?
Will they be rigorously cleaned between flights?
Or will they be covered with those little squares of paper that you usually see on headrests? More importantly, have the passengers thought about how cold it gets on planes?
The idea behind it is to appeal to those from the old East Germany, where nudist holidays were big business in the 1970s and 80s.
They’re not the first, though.
The subtly-named Naked Air had the first ever naked, commercial flight from Miami to Cancun in 2003.
You can see the inaugural flight, in all its glory, at the company’s website.

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