{"id":97168028,"date":"2009-12-15T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-new-zealand-challenges-u-s-airline-to-disrobe\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","slug":"air-new-zealand-challenges-u-s-airline-to-disrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-new-zealand-challenges-u-s-airline-to-disrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand Challenges U.S. Airline to Disrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSouthwest Airlines will not get naked. That was the response from the Dallas based carrier after being challenged by Air New Zealand to match its “body-painted” safety demonstration video that went viral on internet sites like YouTube and had many people talking in the “kiwi” country earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe “Bare Essentials of Safety from Air New Zealand” video depicts the flight crew in nothing but painted-on uniforms. Air New Zealand requested that Southwest join them to create the world’s first airline safety musical…Southwest declined.\n<\/p>\n

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\nAlthough they are not interested in wearing their birthday suits to entertain the masses, Southwest has produced a “greatest hits” video in response to garner from cheap publicity. In it the rapping flight attendant even says, “We’ll keep our clothes on.”\n<\/p>\n

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\nWhile making the video is all in fun, it is also a way for the LUV airline to grow their social media department, which has three full-time staffers whose sole purpose is to create material to place on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Southwest Airlines will not get naked. That was the response from the Dallas based carrier after being challenged by Air New Zealand to match its “body-painted” safety demonstration video that went viral on internet sites like YouTube and had many people talking in the “kiwi” country earlier this year. The “Bare Essentials of Safety […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97168028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-trending-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97168028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97170012,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168028\/revisions\/97170012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97168028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97168028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97168028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}