Delta Airlines may have made one of the best airline safety videos in history.
Flight attendants have been performing pre-safety checks for as long as we've had commercial flight. At this point, most people have seen the routine and tune the attendants out. This tuning out has inspired some airlines and flight attendants to get creative with their safety presentations. Some flight attendants now use the safety check to perform a dance or rap number. Other airlines play a video that uses humor, character and nostalgia to express the required points.
Now, Delta Airlines has taken the game to the next level. The airline released a safety video on Wednesday titled ""The Internetest safety video on the Internet." The video features a number of memes and internet celebrities helping to express the predetermined FAA safety guidelines. The video includes appearances from the Annoying Orange, Nyan Cat and Dramatic Chipmunk, as well as features popular memes like the 3D dancing baby, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and the Harlem Shake.
When Delta posted the video, it said that this could be "the best thing to happen to the Internet since the cloud."
"We had a ton of fun with this one, and we think our customers will, too," Mauricio Parise, Delta's director of Worldwide Marketing Communication, told USA Today. "Internet fame is fleeting, but our commitment to the safety of our customers and crew is not. These memes and cameos tap into the zeitgeist as the latest way of capturing our customers' attention for our important safety presentation."
The video was filmed on an Airbus A330-200 in a hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and it had real life Delta employees playing the on-screen employees.
Delta will begin showing this safety video on planes on May 25.
