- A video online showed the EasyJet staffer guiding passengers through stretches
- The crew member revealed it was for a very particular – and helpful – reason
- One amused passenger filmed it and shared it to TikTok, where it went viral
Flights are often getting delayed, but one airline employee has come up with a unique way to make sure passengers aren’t held up too much.
A traveler on a recent EasyJet flight, named Joe, took to TikTok to share a hilarious video of a cabin manager taking passengers through a series of movements in their seat, dubbing it ‘air-aerobics.’
The clip began with Joe in his plane seat listening to the voice of the crew member speaking through the inflight PA system, with a strange request for the passengers.
On the clip, Joe wrote: ‘What is going on?’ as he looked amused and listened to the crew member.
‘Just before we come into land … I’ve been flying for 30 years now … a couple of weeks ago, I just tried something to help the crew out, to help our operations to turnaround the plane quicker,’ he said.
‘I came up with an idea,’ the experienced crew member continued.
‘If you want to join in with this, please feel free … it’s a bit of a laugh and a bit of a giggle. It’s called air aerobics.’
The crew member then pointed out the passengers had been cooped up in their seats for three to four hours due to a delay, before guiding them through some stretches.
A plane passenger shared a hilarious video of an EasyJet crew member taking passengers through a series of movements in their seat, dubbing it ‘air-aerobics’ (stock image)
‘So what I’d like everybody to do is stretch around,’ he urged. ‘Lets see those arms.’
He told everyone to lean to the right, then to the left, and then the middle.
‘Touch your head,’ he instructed. ‘Touch your nose, touch your shoulders, touch your knees, no touch your toes.’
Then, the stretch got interesting, with the crew member telling passengers to reach into the seat pocket in front of them and locate the safety card.
‘Everybody pull that out and wave it in the air like you just don’t care,’ he directed, before delivering the final instructions of his air-aerobics.
‘Put the card back in the seat pocket, with the “safety on board” sign facing you and placing the card in front of the other literature in the seat pocket,’ he requested.
‘Believe it or not, that’s knocked seven minutes on my turnaround time,’ the cabin manager told the plane full of passengers. ‘Thank you very much for helping us.’
The Daily Mail has contacted EasyJet for comment.
The crew member said it would help the passengers after sitting for a long time and also help him – as he urged them to straighten the safety cards as one of the movements (stock image)
He guided passengers through some stretches – which ended with them placing the seat card back in the seat to help the turnaround time of cleaning the plane (stock image)
Users chimed in with their thoughts in the comment section, many whom work in the airline industry.
‘That’s hysterical! Putting the safety cards at the front facing the right way does actually knock time off the turnaround,’ agreed one user.
Another joked: ‘I thought he was going to say, “So you see the instructions for a crash landing, that’s the brace position you all now need to take as the landing gear is stuck.”‘
Someone else pointed out making sure to move on a flight can also help prevent deep vein thrombosis, which is a a blood clot that forms in a deep vein, usually in the leg or pelvis.
‘In 2001 there was a lot of awareness of DVTS. I was on a flight and part way through Mr Motivator came on and made us exercise! No making us read though!’ they quipped.
