Virgin Atlantic Suckers Us with Their 'Air Weddings' and Other Cruel Travel Jokes
Virgin Atlantic and anything with Richard Branson's name behind it has a long history of crazy announcements and parties so it's no surprised that we totally got suckered by their April Fools Joke today announcing through their email newsletter, V Married, a way for couples to get hitched in-flight.
Take over our Clubhouses for your bachelor and bachelorette parties, then take off with up to 300 guests for your wedding in the sky, complete with pilot officiator and air hostess bridesmaids.
Enjoy a champagne reception (with real champagne flutes), followed by a three course meal and speeches through the headphones.
It's all the excitement of a wedding, elopement and honeymoon rolled into one, with your friends and family along for the ride. Now all you need to do is say 'I do'.
Is it wrong that we were extremely saddened that this was just an April Fool's Joke? Can you imagine listening to the best man's speech through headphones? And everyone wouldn't need to drink as much since the altitude would help you along fater. Then again, there would be limited room for the groom to pull out his breakdancing moves and diving for that bouquet could get rather hazardous. And we'd hate to think what the bathroom wait would look like!
Keep reading for more April Fool's Day Jokes!
Our assistant editor Ellen Wernecke has culled together a list of all the other travel-related April Fool's Jokes so you know what's real and what's not.
· Guidebooks encourage you to go everywhere else, so why not Bakpakhistan? At least you know there are cheap bunks available. [Lonely Planet]
· Picking on the foibles of the world: Escalator on Everest Set for 2012. Funny! Picking on one man: Hero Pilot Who Landed on Hudson Turning Into a Real Jerk. Not funny. [Gadling]
· You know how some people wrap their suitcases in swaths of cling wrap before traveling abroad? Someone did that to parked cars in Melbourne, and the owners are not laughing. But it beats the ol' Saran-wrap-on-toilet trick. [News.com.AU]
· They can never take away our pandas! A report that two Taiwanese zoo bears were just spray-painted regular bears had animal lovers up in arms. [Taipei Times]
· Ryanair found yet another way of squeezing revenue out of their service: By adding Plus and Gold levels of service. Meh, too close to home. [Breaking Travel News]
· Ever stood on a distant mountain and yodeled your heart out? With Microsoft's new game Alpine Legend, you can yodel without leaving home. [Geekologie]
· Finally, this isn't strictly travel-related, but a British newspaper fake-announced it was switching to Twitter, and we were just happy to be in on the joke. [Guardian]
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