Inspired by a new viral video for Silverjet that puts a new twist on the Mile
High Club (see below), we have trawled the world’s favourite video junkyard
(er, community) to find the site’s best business travel-related clips. From
the classic adverts of yesteryear to the first-person video reviews sneakily
shot on a cameraphone, it’s all here. You probably disagree so make sure you
let us know your favourites. You could even submit your own clip and let us
know.
For
starters: that Silverjet video
Here are the other contenders......
The
greatest business travel advert of all time?
This is surely the greatest business traveller advert of all time. It’s for
the now defunct British Caledonian (it got swallowed up by British Airways)
and features business blokes singing their hearts out why they like the
airline to the tune of The Beach Boys’ California Girls. I’m guessing but I
imagine this advert wouldn’t get made today.
The
Concorde experience
Now that the world’s only commercial supersonic airliner has been grounded,
you’ll have to fly on it vicariously through the wonders of YouTube. This
really shows the experience from beginning to end – the slick check-in, the
vast lounge, the thrill of Mach 1 and the passengers asking each other to
take their pictures.
The only chance you might get to see Virgin’s Clubhouse - Part
1 and
Part 2
It has to be the best airline lounge in the UK, perhaps the world. Judge for
yourself with these two videos that show everything from the spa to the
swanky New York deli at Virgin’s Clubhouse in Heathrow.
Terminal
5
Business travellers fed up with the queues and the hassle of Heathrow are
gagging for the opening of Terminal 5 next year, if only to make the other
terminals a bit less busy. This professionally put together clip shows the
construction process using time-lapse video.
Club
World
The new Club World has been long awaited. Now you can see exactly what the
experience is like – at least if you want to know how the privacy screen
moves up and down, what size the tray is and how the automated arm rests
work.
Airbus
A380 evacuation – 873 people off in 77 seconds
The evacuation video of the Airbus A380 – what better to convince you to fly
Boeing. Check out the scary stewardess yelling at everyone to get off and
the bottlenecks that form at the bottom of the slides. Apart from anything
else, the frenetic speed of the evacuation makes this one worth watching
again and again.
Scariest
approach?
A reminder of why business travellers flying to Hong Kong can be glad that Kai
Tak airport closed and Chek Lap Kok opened. This landing of a 747 on what
many pilots considered to be the scariest approach in the world gives you a
real will-they or won’t they moment.
This is
the age of the train
Harking back to the days of British Rail, Sir Jimmy Savile shows us what 70s
business travellers knew best – you should let the train take the strain.
The best bit is the business man plonking his copy of the Economist on the
seat next to him, just to establish that it’s really good for business
travellers.
A
must-have for BlackBerry addicts
A hilarious spoof ad for a new accessory for anyone with a CrackBerry. There’s
a few real LOL moments in this. And just check out that poor pixellation
when he comes out of the shower.
