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New Zealand's national airline has cabin crew wearing nothing but body paint
Published on Saturday, Jul 04, 2009
Associated Press
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand's national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint.
The Bare Essentials of Safety is screening in the cabins of planes flying Air New Zealand's main domestic routes. On YouTube, it had 1.2 million views by Friday, four days after its launch.
In the video, three cabin staff and a pilot, all in full body paint applied to look like their uniforms, talk viewers through the aircraft's safety procedures.
A demonstration seat belt, life jacket and arm rests are strategically positioned during the 31/2-minute video to protect the cabin crew's . . . discretion. Passengers are shown ogling, mostly in appreciation.
The body paint idea is also being used in a series of TV commercials, which include the promise: ''At Air New Zealand, our fares have nothing to hide.''
One ad even features Chief Executive Rob Fyfe in body paint.
''We think in tough times there's a premium for making people smile, and it gives the opportunity to stand out in a crowd,'' Air New Zealand's marketing general manager, Steve Bayliss, told the Associated Press.
Each crew member spent about three hours having the body paint applied.
The video needed ''a little bit of a hint, but every frame has to be as modest as anything you see at the local swimming pool or the beach in summer,'' Bayliss said.
After all, the people in the ads are not models or actors but colleagues, he said.
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