Serenity on an A380 — without leaving the ground
The trouble with flying across the Atlantic Ocean is that passengers don’t breathe right while they’re doing it.
[...] again, if you don’t want to get clobbered by the mindful passenger sitting 31 inches directly behind you, you might not.
Take a moment to notice what’s it’s like to be sitting here on this plane mid-flight.
On an airplane you can feel cool, fresh air only if you open the window, but it’s not recommended.
Perhaps British Airways, being based in London, lacks experience with fresh air.
The worry most airplane passengers have is what holds the thing up in the sky and whether it will keep doing it for 11 hours, until the other side of the world arrives.
[...] he’s sitting in business class, where the seats not only recline but lie flat.
British Airways shot the mindfulness video while the A380 was parked at the gate.
[...] he need not worry about driving his car on the left and eating steak-and-kidney pie.
A British Airways spokesman said Coleman shot the videos as part of the airline’s debut last month of its A380 Airbus service from San Francisco to London.
Mindfulness, the spokesman said, is big, and the British, after that little misunderstanding with us colonials in 1776, are always looking to make amends.
The two-story leviathan carries a staggering 469 passengers, all of whom get served British food for dinner, to get them ready for what’s coming.
When it comes to relatives, the mindful thing to do is to leave your judgment on the other side of the ocean.