Speed Dating – MID-AIR?
It’s 2020, we really can’t be surprised by anything, I guess – but this one is a doozy. According to CNN, a Taiwanese airline company is teaming up with a travel experience company to launch a campaign to help singles meet while on airlines with no destination except Love City.
EVA Airways, one of the largest carriers in Taiwan, is partnering with travel experience company Mobius on a campaign called “Fly! Love is in the Air.” These are flights for singles on Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year Day.”Because of Covid-19, EVA Air has been organizing “faux travel” experiences to fulfill people’s desire for travel. When single men and women travel, apart from enjoying the fun in travel, they may wish to meet someone — like a scene in a romantic movie,” Chiang Tsung-Wei, the spokesperson for You and Me, the speed dating arm of Mobius, tells CNN Travel.
Each of the dating experiences includes a three-hour flight that departs from Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport and circles the airspace above Taiwan, plus another two hours of a romantic date back on land.
Going through pre-flight screenings, dealing with airplane bathrooms and pressure changes, just for the off chance to meet someone who was weird enough to ALSO do this crazy speed dating shenanigans?! Hey – you gotta give people credit for trying.