Fact: Mick Fanning is distractingly sexy. The same goes for Alana Blanchard, Gabriel Medina, Anastasia Ashley, and Laird Hamilton, which is exactly why regulators are blushing hard that Air New Zealand’s latest in-flight safety video stars the golden skin, sun-kissed abs and gorgeous bods of these smokeshows.
The Kiwi airline knows that safety videos are barely watchable, so they’ve made a habit of putting movie stars and athletes — and now the world’s steamiest surfers — in them. They started showing this in flight safety video in 2015, but now the Civil Aviation Authority reckons that Blanchard’s honey-coated voice and Fanning’s devastating jawline are dangerously arousing.
In an email to the airline, the regulatory body, whose cheeks must have appeared a deep rouge, flirted:
“As we have commented previously, the video diverges materially from the ‘safety message’ at times, and whilst I appreciate the need to engage the viewers, the extraneous material detracts from the scope and direction of the safety message.”
They stopped short of preventing the airline from using the super seductive spot, though.
In the past, the airline has also used comedians and — seriously not kidding here — Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models for this equally ridiculously sexy safety video.
Jodi Williams, an airline spokesman told TVNZ: “We took what was an instructional help video and turned it on its head and created really entertaining content that not only demonstrated the safety messages, and we saw more customers watching them as a result of it, but also a really amazing piece of marketable material.”
All of this is weird because, probably for the first time ever, plenty of us are actually watching an airline safety video.
