Delta Gets Cute with Classic In-Flight Safety Video

Adrants reader Atif sent us Delta's new airline safety video. It's all slick production and jammed with in-flight classics:

o A hot pilot
o A distractingly hot spokes-stewardess (Dubbed "Deltalina" by the Flyertalk forum geeks, for her similarity to Angelina Jolie)
o The requisite forced enthusiasm for the 5 minutes of life-saving schlock we've heard 30382943908453908 times
o The classic "No Smoking" finger wave
o An Orbit tooth glisten, complete with sound effects (wait for it!)

The spot felt gimmicky because it was gimmicky, but the feeling of quiet agony was amplified by the notion Delta thought the same-old-same would seem sexier if it had a commercial tribute feel.

It also felt very Virgin America (they must be stoked!), but Virgin's over the in-flight harkback thing and has moved on to hand drawn apathy. ("For the .001 percent of you who have never operated a seat belt before, it works. Like. This.")

No hot stewardess, no bullshit. And oddly enough, Virgin makes the same old same freshly watchable.

But back to Delta.

Can a cabin crew of poor man's Angelinas single-handedly save an airline from bankruptcy woes? We're about to find out.

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Comment by Jane Ann on March 22, 2008 at 8:49pm: I love this story, I found out at http://DeltaLina.com that she must be a teacher and is sooo cool

Comment by Bud Ryerson on February 22, 2008 at 2:59pm: It's a little off topic, but I was struck by the graphic that showed the life rafts to be located far away from the emergency exits. In an emergency, wouldn't you want to throw those out first?

More on topic, I thought the single point perspective was a unsettling and a little weird.

Comment by Lane Casteix on February 22, 2008 at 2:40pm: Uhhh, those LIPS!!!!

But I will still avoid Delta if I can. Too many bad experiences.

Lane