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Finnair Flight Attendants Surprise Passengers with Bollywood Booty Shaking (VIDEO)

This Friday morning, do you have a weird craving to watch Scandinavian women wearing saris, dancing in sync with lively Bollywood music? Well then, this is your lucky friday!

Just a few days ago, a group of dancing Finns boarded a Finnair flight from Helsinki to Delhi and—you know what's coming—performed a whole dance routine to "Om Shanti Om" in celebration of India's Republic Day. Even business class got a dose of the booty shaking, and check out the flight attendants getting down!

Of course there's a story behind the idea to bring this onboard, and you can read it here, on the Finnair blog. Umm and yeah—we totally want to learn that dance now.

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Finnair Flight Attendants Whip Up Their Own Flashmob

The world loves to watch flight attendants dance. This we discovered when that Cebu Pacific video of FAs doing the safety demo to the tune of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry went viral. Who are we kidding? The world loves to watch flight attendants do anything other than typical flight attendant stuff, so when Finnair's girls got together to dance for their fellow crew at base, it would of course leak online.

The song: "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire.

The place: the Finnair Crew Lounge at what we're assuming is Helsinki Airport

Finnair has already posted it on their own YouTube, so this could be a publicity stunt, but the fact they didn't involve any passengers (or public) leads us to believe this is just what it seems; a few flight attendants got an idea, got their friends to play along and then alerted the airline to the fun, who were game to support it.

Cute! Keeping their black leather gloves on was a nice touch.

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'Angry Birds' Takes to the Skies, But For Real Though

We're going to tell you something you already know: the iPhone game Angry Birds is big. Huge. Ginormous. It's so big that, the other day during a stroll through a night market in Thailand, we spotted many stalls with bootleg Angry Birds T-shirts, tank tops and even flip-flops for sale. Thus it's probably no surprise that of course the airlines are trying to capitalize on the Angry Birds fervor, though not in the way you'd expect.

You know what would be cool? Adding the Angry Birds game to in-flight entertainment. You know what would be kinda weird? Themeing an entire flight after the game, and offering Angry Birds' biggest fans to fly it. According to The Independent, that's what Finnair is doing with their "Angry Birds Asian Challenge" flight:

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New Airline Routes Head to Eastern Europe, Wisconsin, and Even Baghdad

Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· Finnair:
If you’re looking for a different European experience this summer, maybe Finland is worth a visit. Finnair is bringing back its nonstop service between Toronto and Helsinki, beginning on May 26, five days a week through the beginning of September. Even if Finland isn’t your final destination, the flight is timed so that you can connect to around 50 other destinations in Europe. For those located in the nifty fifty, don’t forget that American Airlines is launching a Helsinki option from Chicago beginning this May—they’re buddies with Finnair in the oneworld airline alliance.

· Delta:
Summer is just around the corner, or at least that’s what we keep telling ourselves. Delta is getting right to start-up all kinds of seasonal service starting on June 1, so we wanted to pass along just a few of the destinations that are accessible from New York-JFK. Budapest, Zurich, and Kiev all become nonstop options at the beginning of June, but act quickly, as service wraps up on October 29. There’s similar season service from the Big Apple to Reykjavík and Malaga, Spain as well.

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Have Extra Miles? Use Them on Cosmetic Surgery or Other Crazy Rewards

Whenever we rack up airline miles, we put them toward more travel rather than a kitchen mixer. But it looks like airlines are tempting frequent flyers to use their miles on crazy stuff like facelifts.

Yep, those bags under your eyes from frequent air travel can get nip-tucked away with your miles. The Wall Street Journal reported that Finnair will give you a facelift for 4.6 million miles. Or if you are feeling self-conscious about other physical characteristics, you can cash in 3.2 million of its Plus points to get a hair transplantation or breast augmentation.

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New Route Announcements Include Dallas to Rio and JetBlue to Turks

Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· JetBlue:
You won’t be able to add it to a stop to your AYCJ pass this season, but it might be a possibility for 2011. JetBlue is adding to its Caribbean empire with new options to Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands starting February 17. Flights will operate in and out of JetBlue’s main hub at JFK every day, but Boston is also picking up seasonal service beginning in February. Unfortunately Beantown’s new route will only happen on Saturdays, but if you head to paradise for a week you’ll be just fine. We’re looking for hotel deals already, so we’ll let you know if we see anything good!

· United Airlines:
It’s feeling a little cooler in some parts of the country, so it might be time to start planning that winter trip to hit the slopes. If you want to ski with the rich and famous you might want to consider giving United Airlines a chance. New daily nonstop flights will whisk skiers between Aspen and Houston starting on January 4, but the new route will shut down once the snow begins to melt. Be sure to get your trip in prior to April 2.

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Dream Job Alert! Finnair Wants 'Quality Hunters' to Fly Around the World

Does your job suck? Or maybe you just know there's something out there that's better for you. Or maybe you don't have a job at all. Whichever reason it is, let it get you motivated to enter Finnair's new contest, Top Quality Hunter.

The airline is looking to hire not one, but four people to act as "quality hunters," blogging as much as they're flying across Europe, the United States and Asia. Here's the idea of it:

The Quality Hunters' mission will be to travel to cities in Europe, Asia and the US throughout October and November, assessing flights, airports and destinations. As independent advisors to Finnair, they are expected to communicate their impartial views and recommendations to the company on a regular basis throughout the two-month period. In addition, the Quality Hunters will share their thoughts and adventures with the public through personal blogs.

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Finnair Brings Fresh Crayfish Onboard...For You to Eat

Finnair is so pumped for the six-month-long Shanghai World Expo that the airline will give out fresh crayfish, as in caught-in-a-Finnish-lake-district fresh. We're not sure what crayfish, a Nordic delicacy, has to do with the expo, but any reason for free food, right?

Unfortunately, only those in business class will get to chow down on the in-season crayfish, which look like baby lobsters and measure three to six inches long. Starting August 6, business-class passengers will get four freshwater crayfish on Helsinki-to-Shanghai flights.

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New Routes on the Way from WestJet, Continental, Finnair and More

Sometimes it’s hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we’ve complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.

· WestJet:
Canada is pretty darn chilly in the winter, but thankfully WestJet is around to whisk passengers to warmer climates. The low cost carrier just released its winter schedule, and they are headed to three new seasonal destinations. There will be flights to Jamaica from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, and Montreal. For fans of Castro there will be flights from Montreal and Calgary to Varadero, Cuba. Finally, citizens of Toronto will find it easy to visit Palm Springs with their own new route.

· Delta, American Airlines, & Hawaiian Airlines:
Earlier this week, the US Department of Transportation gave out a few presents to three airlines. Delta, American Airlines, and Hawaiian Airlines were all given permission to fly to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Plenty of airlines already fly to Narita Airport, but Haneda is way closer to downtown Tokyo and should be more convenient for those heading to the city for either business or pleasure. Delta will have flights from Los Angeles and Detroit, American from New York, and Hawaiian will be doing its thing from Honolulu.

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Finnair Says 'Näkemiin' To Its MD-11s, So Anybody Want to Buy Some Planes?

Most of the airplanes flying around the globe are pretty standardized in their choice of power plants. Most have two engines, a few have four, but that’s pretty much it. There’s still a few airlines flying planes with three engines, but Finnair recently reduced the number of these planes in the sky. Finnair has been flying these birds since 1990, but on Monday they flew their last commercial flight with an MD-11 as it went from Helsinki to Delhi.

Throughout the years the tri-jets have carried about 14 million passengers for Finnair, landing in cool places over 50,000 times. The airline is ditching the old jets in favor of some newer aircraft, including the Airbus A330 and A340. Eventually—like in 2014—Finnair will be getting a totally new A350 from Airbus as well. They’re pretty excited over the gas they’ll save in ditching the old planes, as their current Airbus fleet will now be about 20 percent more fuel-efficient.

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Want To Drink On Finnair? Pay Up!

As if oneworld didn't have enough to worry about with the whole JAL thing, it now looks like Finnair is in huge trouble. We're not talking about how their union is striking and forcing dozens of cancelations tomorrow either. That's bad, obviously. But it's nothing compared to the wrath they're going to feel when people find out they're cutting back on in-flight alcohol, denying their passengers the libations they need to deal with the screaming child in the next seat over. And to think, we just got done being nice to airlines about their alcohol selections. Glad that's over:

From 12 January 2010, a fee will be charged for all alcoholic drinks in Economy Class on Finnair's European flights. Wine and beer will be charged in Economy Class on flights within Europe. Red and white wine will cost 5 euros and beer 4 euros. Sparkling wine and stronger alcoholic drinks already cost 5 euros. In Business Class all drinks are free of charge. In Economy Class on intercontinental flights there is also a fee for sparkling wine and stronger alcohol, while wine and beer is free of charge.

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Finnair Thinks 85 Years Ahead, We Wonder Why

All this year Finnair has been celebrating its 85th birthday in style, looking to the past with its 50s-retro paint job and now to the future with its Departure 2093 website.

The year 2093 is--in case you were wondering, because it wasn’t instantly obvious to us--another 85 years away, so Finnair thought it'd be fun to speculate about flying in the future. They asked experts for their opinion and drew funky pictures and even started a discussion forum for debate--it's early days, but after a week there are just four messages on it.

Given that, frankly speaking, we're not really anticipating being alive in 2093, Finnair's idea is kind of fun, but a bit on the irrelevant side. Their funky flying things of the future look great, though.

Related Stories:
· Departure 2093 [Official Site]
· Finnair Goes Funky 50s Retro [Jaunted]
· Finnair Coverage [Jaunted]

[Illustration: Departure 2093]