New Reality Series: The Plane Life

So airplanes are like their own little village.  One could even say they are compatible to Las Vegas’ new CityCenter.  Here is why:

1. You step onto the plane to find your seat and most people are compelled to introduce themselves or acknowledge the person in their closest proximity.  Now call me old-fashioned but this seems to mirror the same friendly behavior of moving into a new neighborhood and taking your neighbor some goodies to introduce yourself and welcome them.

2. On most flights over 45 minutes, food and drink is offered.  This form of ritual imitates the act of going out for a night on the town. On longer flights, 1-2 complete meals may be served to asphyxiate any complaining tummies.  Now whether the tummy ends up complaining afterwards for different reasons remains undisclosed. 

3. All around there is life and activity - People shuffling through the aisles, opening and closing the overhead compartments to find their form of entertainment, jamming out with their headphones, watching movies, reading books, talking, etc. When you stop and look around, there is never a dull moment. 

4. The stewards/esses are always busy maintaining operations.  They can be seen as the parental force that provides for the Family and keeps mayhem from erupting onboard.

5. The pilots act as the governing body.  They make the decisions and keep everyone moving forward.

This aerial world can be be quite complex when given proper attention.  I am going to add finding a way to cause airborne drama to my list of social experiments.  It would be interesting to start relatively innocent drama within a plane and see how people react / what would happen.  I wonder what it would be like to do a reality series on flights – especially the 24+ hour ones.  One could document the interactions between flight attendants because you KNOW they all don’t always get along, the interactions between attendants and passengers, and what the hell the pilots do the whole time that they are in the cockpit.  You know they just put it on Auto-Pilot, so what DO they DO for those 7-8 hours besides overshoot their destinations by 150 miles???

Hey, I’m just keeping it real from 35,000 ft in the air :)