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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!

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Southwest Gives Out Free Money In April Fool's Day Un-Joke

Google will write your e-mails for you, Zappos wants you to think vertically and ThinkGeek will sell you a unicorn in a can. Man, do we love April Fool's Day! But Southwest just had to go and be different by doing something that sounded like a prank, but wasn't.

Southwest is all about bringing the funny, but the $10,000 prizes they handed out to 21 employees were real as far as we can tell. The lucky recipients were chosen at random from a stack of in-house commendations, guaranteeing that at some point someone noticed these people doing a great job. Employees found out through "Deal or No Deal"-style suitcase messages, fake boarding passes and causing tears, jaw-dropping and a little jumping.

This was too cool to be mocked. Stay tuned for the Jaunted version of "Pennies from Heaven," in which oh, we're just kidding, sorry.

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· No Foolin' - Pennies from Heaven [BlogSouthwest]
· Last Year: A Sneak Preview of Tomorrow's Foolishness [Jaunted]

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Travel Media: A Sneak Preview of Tomorrow's Foolishness

Got all your pranks ready for tomorrow? April Fool's Day promises to be a lackluster attempt at humor throughout the travel media. If last year is any indication, Gadling will be leading the charge with a full day of fabricated travel news.

Hopefully they can come up with something a little more funny than Airbus puns. Humph. We'll see. Also possible are some Chris Elliott yuks about airlines actually helping out consumers instead of infuriating them.

As for us, we'll be keeping up our always-straight-faced coverage of travel stories featuring the Pussycat Dolls and Heidi and Lauren.

Related Stories:
· Travel Media coverage [Jaunted]
· Holidays coverage [Jaunted]

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