In Flight Safety Lectures Are Getting Much More Entertaining

Westjet flight attendant Michael McAdams gets
into the pre-flight safety briefing.  

Creative ways to do the traditional, required pre-flight safety speech on airline flights are all the rage these days.

Two new viral videos illustrate my point.

One shows a flight attendant in for Westjet in Canada doing an awesome pantomime of how it's done.

Michael McAdams does his thing as the pre-flight lecture is done in French, but he makes it easy for us English speaking jet setters.

Here's the video, with another different one to follow:



Next, we have a much more slick video. As noted in several other blogs I've seen, this must have the highest production values of any pre-flight video I've ever seen.

It features the New Zealand All Blacks national rugby team, helped by a bunch of dancers and other co-stars, (including Rip Torn!)  giving the safety briefing for Air New Zealand.

Of course it's done to a "Men In Black" theme. It is pretty good.

Air New Zealand has done this before. In 2013, they did the pre-flight safety video with Betty White and other favorite old stars.

Here's the "Men In Black" Air New Zealand video:  

Betty White Makes Your Flight Both Safer And More Enjoyable

Be honest. How many of you snooze through that safety briefing flight attendents always give before the plane takes off?

Betty White wants you to have
a safe flight  

That's what I figured. All of you.

As always, though, it's Betty White to the rescue. Air New Zealand got the wonderful idea of getting the legendary, awesome White to help with the safety briefing.

Bonus: Gavin MacLeod (Captain Stubing on the Love Boat) makes a guest appearance, too. There's also a cast of
excellent other older people to help out with this video.

The video is hilarious. And now, for the first time, I know all the safety rules on a passenger jet.

For once, I paid attention, thanks to Betty White. Here's the superb video: