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Air New Zealand Encourages Pole-Dancing Politicians

February 26, 2008 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments

Air New Zealand ran an unusual promotion this week to let Kiwis know the airline's increasing capacity on domestic flights, with Boeing 737s coming into use. That news of itself isn't too exciting, but Air NZ got a bunch of city mayors together to compete for cheap tickets, and that's when things got spicy.

The mayors of four cities were taken down to a fire station to compete in the Mayor Idol contest. Pole-dancing started the day, and then there was something akin to a wet T-shirt contest when the hoses came out.

The winner, Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt, was proud that citizens of his town got the chance to buy $1 tickets for flights between Invercargill and Christchurch. A thousand $1 tickets were sold over the weekend and everybody who got one can be thankful that their mayor was a great pole dancer.

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