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Get Some Exercise In-Flight With 'Airobics' on Turkish Air
Last week Shira Levine spent a few days getting her Turkish Delight on in Istanbul, Turkiye ("Turkey is a bird; Turkiye is the country".) But first, she had to fly there. Fortunately, Turkish Air cares about her in-flight health.
About an hour into the New York to Istanbul flight in our turquoise, upholstered 1980s vintage seats on Turkish Air, our private screening of "Confessions of a Shopaholic" was interrupted with an in-flight video exercise session dubbed "airobics." Seriously.
Featuring a similar vibe to the randomly quirky Dutch Mentos commercials, a man and woman demonstrated for passengers how to keep blood flowing and the body active for a long flight. The cheery duo shared tips by doing a series of small foot, leg, neck, head, arm and hand exercises all while sitting down in their seats. (Nearly the entire flight participated in the activities too -- including the enormous Turkish man wearing a swine flu mask who ultimately snored the remainder of the flight.)
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The First Class Lounge at Turkish Air is Rather Palatial
We don't want to wish any serious airport stranding on ourselves, but if and when, then couldn't it be somewhere as bizarre as this, the executive lounge of Turkish Air at Istanbul's Ataturk airport?
We're pretty impressed that some people felt relaxed enough here in this über-decadent airline lounge to not just put their feet on the seats, but actually stretch out--we would be hearing our mother's voice in our ear telling us to behave.
We can't put it better than the photographer who described this place as having a "your flight has been delayed so now you're stranded at Dolmabache Palace" feel to it.
What we can't figure out is why our delays are always at airports where we can't access any decent lounge and end up sleeping on plastic benches at fast food franchises instead. Can anyone tell us which god we have to pray to?
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[Photo: WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?]
