Hawaian Airlines and Thai Airways Saftey Videos

Hawaiian Airlines

Rather than recruit celebrities, or use special effects, Hawaiian Airlines chose to make its home islands the star of its safety video.

Even though Hawaiian Airlines uploaded this video in May, it is not a new piece of work as such. Instead, the airline has refreshed and updated something created all the way back in 2015.

This featured crew members and their family showing off their favourite Hawaii spots.

Thai Airways

According to a recent report on the Australian website news.com.au, “fat people” have been “banned from the pointy end of Thai Airways’ Dreamliners.”

Or to be more specifc, “passengers with a waistline of more than 142.24cm (or 56 inches) will not be able to fasten the new seatbelt airbags in business class.” The website says this also means that parents with infants on their laps may also have to go back to “cattle class.”

Meanwhile, the introduction of new 787- 9 Dreamliners has also meant a new Thai Airways safety video.

The video takes the form of a pop up book, where colourful fowers and orchids surround cabin crew members as they go through the safety instructions so that the whole video looks like it is taking place in an animated forest.

Reaction to the video in Thailand itself wasn’t universally positive. According to the Bangkok Post, some have criticised the video for not using native fora. Instead, many of the fowers and birds shown are actually from South America - something that would be lost to most casual viewers.

Academic Rungsit Kanjanavanit, quoted in the Bangkok Post said that “he was not an “extreme nationalist” but decided to air his opinion in order to remind people to be proud of Thailand’s natural beauty.”

According to the piece, one social media commentator made an unfavourable comparison with Singapore Airlines videos, which promote the landmark and attractions of the city state.