Dancing Flight Attendants

**Monseratto** · October 2nd, 2010 09:25 AM

The YouTube video has recieved 296,000 views from yesterday's mere 10,000. It even caught the attention on Yahoo. Best Marketing video for Cebu Pacific...

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/vid...e-to-pop-hits/

Coffee, Tea...Or Gaga? Flight Attendants Safety-Dance To Pop Hits
Posted Fri Oct 1, 2010 11:19am PDT by Lyndsey Parker

Airlines are slashing amenities left and right these days--legroom, blankets, check-on baggage allotments, peanuts, and free meals are now pretty hard to come by in the not-so-friendly skies--but luckily the Philippines' Cebu Pacific Airlines hasn't cut back on its in-flight entertainment, judging by a new viral video currently flying around the Interweb faster than a Concord..

In the cute and funny clip, Cebu flight attendants choreograph what would otherwise be a dull safety demonstration to pop hits by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. The smiling stewardesses demonstrate proper seatbelt-fastening techniques and life-vest deployment to Gaga's "Just Dance," then show off their coordinated oxygen-mask-fastening skills and point out the nearest exits while shimmying in their retro-mod orange uniforms to "California Gurls." .

Yes, apparently electronic devices are still forbidden on flights, but electronic music is perfectly fine. In fact, with the monotonic, Max Headroom-esque voice reciting Cebu's safety instructions on top of the Lady and Katy songs, the effect is like one cool techno mashup. We wouldn't be surprised if clever DJs start spinning the "Cebu Megamix" in Philippines airport lounges pretty soon..

Obviously this clip makes for a better Cebu advertisement than any legitimate big-budget commercial could ever provide. Which begs the question: Was this video planted online by Cebu? Quite possibly. .

Case in point: The amused passenger who uploaded this onto YouTube, "wingco1129," only joined YouTube yesterday (the day this clip was apparently shot), and has no other videos on his/her YouTube channel. Additionally, winco1129's description accompanying the video says [sic], "something interesting happened on my Cebu pacific flight this afternoon. the FAs suddenly burst into a dance!!! that was soooo cooool!!!" But if wingco was really so surprised (assuming he/she is not a frequent Cebu flier)...then how did he/she know to have the camera at the ready and to hit record right when the first notes of "Just Dance" were played? Huh?.

So yes, this was probably staged. But if so...who cares? Clearly the marketing execs over at Cebu are geniuses. And beside, these attendants are actually getting passengers to pay attention to safety demonstrations for once, and they're making the skies just a little friendlier (and funkier). So everyone wins.

**safeorigin** · October 2nd, 2010 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by jimnyeatworld

sana lagyan nila ng pole dun sa may exit

panalo!

also adds structural integrity to the plane coz poles would be stiff

**en3rgy** · October 2nd, 2010 11:45 AM

Sana kung Lady Gaga yung music, ganun din costume/uniform nila

**safeorigin** · October 2nd, 2010 11:55 AM

parang ganito?
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnwNaNAwnB4"]YouTube - Bubble Gang Bitoy Bathroom Dance, Bad romance[/ame]

**chua_riwap** · October 2nd, 2010 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by claRkEnt

Kaya ba ng mga 45 y. o. FAs ng PAL yan? :bwahaha: sige mag-strike pa kayo!

Lalo na siguro kung 60 yo na yung FA. Sagwa nang tingnan Bro.........

**CVT** · October 2nd, 2010 03:11 PM

This, I've got to experience...

10.8K:lalala:

**safeorigin** · October 2nd, 2010 04:01 PM

book! book! book!

**vito corleone** · October 2nd, 2010 05:25 PM

i don't know. . .those are safety instructions that should be remembered in case something happens and giving those instructions must be free of any distractions. . .naging focus na yung sayaw instead of the detailed instructions. . .

in case of an emergency and you don't know what to do, you will curse those gyrating hips and smiling faces which you remembered more than the instructions on what to do

dapat explain muna nang maayos, then pole dancing if they really want to entertain their passengers

**Monseratto** · October 2nd, 2010 06:23 PM

1,000,000 hits!

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/202467/c...ake-off-online

Cebu Pacific shimmying stewardesses take off online
TJ DIMACALI, GMANews.TV
10/02/2010 | 01:43 PM

One of the latest YouTube videos out of the Philippines to take off and go viral is a recent post by YouTube user "wingco1129", showing flight attendants of Cebu Pacific Airlines, a local carrier, conducting the usual pre-flight demonstration while dancing to a mashup of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls".

As of 2:30pm on October 2, less than 48 ours after it was posted on September 30, the video has already been viewed over 700,000 times. It has also been picked up by news organizations and blogs around the world, including The UK Telegraph, Yahoo Music Blog, and The Huffington Post.

The video is such a big online hit that it has already come to the attention of celebrity host Ryan Seacrest -who, in turn, has brought it to the attention of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry themselves.

"gotta see this! Flight attendants dancing the entire safety demo to *ladygaga & *katyperry: http://bit.ly/cCOgS1," he tweeted.

As of this posting, however, both celebrities have yet to reply.

"Cebu Pacific has always been known as a fun airline. We were looking for something new and different, to show that flight safety doesn't have to be boring," said Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and distribution Candice Iyog in an interview with GMANews.TV.

Iyog said that the airline had hired professional choreographers to compose the steps, which were meant to be entertaining even as they highlighted the important safety procedures that passengers need to remember in case of emergencies.

"We knew that the performances would be well received, but we didn't expect them to be this popular," Iyog said when she was informed that the video had gone viral.

Iyog also allayed concerns that the performance posed any hazards to the flight. She explained that the dance was done in-flight, and was just a supplement to the usual standard (and non-musical) safety instructions that are conducted before takeoff. - GMANews.TV