Elysair Parties Like It's 1995
Where: France
In the grand tradition of airline launch ambiguity, Elysair is kicking it up a notch. We reported on the French airline last month. It's set to become something like the MAXjet or Eos of Paris, with all-business-class flights to and from there and the U.S. There's a big difference between MAXjet and Eos, but because Elysair has yet to release its seating plans, we don't know quite what they're going for.
But while looking for more information on Elysair's supposed December launch, we stumbled upon their killer website, which was beamed up straight from 1994 or '95. Perhaps they're spending so much money or gorgeous seats that they can't afford more than a megabyte of server space? Whatever the case, we love the "Under Construction" graphic, probably because we had one just like it on our very first homepage. The only thing they're missing is an embedded Blind Melon MIDI.
There's no techie competition between Elysair and Virgin America, but the lesson learned from both is the same: to calculate an airline's actual launch date, you will need a TI-83 for some serious multiplication and addition action.
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