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Bummer.

Virgin America had the coolest flight-safety video ever: https://youtu.be/DtyfiPIHsIg

Flight safety videos will probably still be shown on overhead monitors. Some kind of safety announcement is compulsory, and the video is a good branding opportunity.

I find that VX one pretty grating though, and will probably be seen as embarrassingly 2010s in a few years time. Some of the Air New Zealand ones are good though.

And roundabout 2030 or so, a Nostalgia Critic-equivalent will post a 64k holovid to YouTube entitled "Hey, remember that Virgin America safety video?"

Oh wait, something like this has already happened: https://youtu.be/1QgWAxkHZWc

Yeah, QF has already done this (for their domestic flights at least, as of last August) and they had motorised overhead monitors that folded down for the safety video.

Maybe the first few times, after ~20 it really starts to lose its luster

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