Kalula Air is a budget airline over here, their marketing is fun, their business approach lighthearted and almost every ad of theirs that I see or hear makes me smile.
During March / April this year they declared themselves “the Un-Official carrier of the you-know what.”
They were forced to withdraw the campaign, not to be outdone they bought a dog, christened the dog Sepp Blatter and flew the dog around the country, they then announced that they were,
“The official airline of Sepp Blatter” 😆
Anyhow, that all old news what do you think of this?
Apparently done at the beginning of the year, I haven’t seen it in fact I doubt if it flies down here, I only heard of it this morning, heres the other half,
There’s a couple more pics here with explanations for all of the funny sayings e.g.
rudder (the steering thingy)
avionics (fancy navigation stuff)
And others.
Here’s the link again for those of you that missed it the first time! 😉
Boadicea's Chariot 
Very funny Soutie, I’ve just been reading the article.
Not sure about the particular shade of green though, but it certainly stands out!
🙂
Although I’m not sure I’d want to know anything technical about the thing that was carrying me in case it fell out of the sky!
Hello Claire!
How are you? Lovely avatar.
Hello Ara!
I’m fine ta, how’s yourself?
I almost forgot I’d turned myself into a flower…
I’m fine thank you, Claire.
Good to see you! 🙂
I saw this a few days ago. It was passed around a group of ex work colleagues who meet from time to time to swill curry and beer in prodigious quantities. Very funny 🙂
Evening Ara, they’re a laugh!
The lime green is their corporate colour, be it their website, booking forms, check in counters, press ads quite distinctive and always different.
Good to see you too, Ara; good to see you all 🙂
Hello FEEG, I too received the pics recently as a mail, I linked to the flightstory page simply because I couldn’t be bothered uploading the pics when I new that they would be on the web somewhere!
Did you get the funny cabin crew announcements as well?
e.g.
“In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend
from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your
face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask
before assisting with theirs. If you are travelling with more than one small child, pick your favourite.”
Good evening Claire, nice to see you here
Ta Soutie. Nice to see you as well.
I’ll spare you the details of our most recent flight, but suffice to say that the airline crew detached the base of the seat that my daughter had been sitting on, and put it in a bin bag…
“In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend
from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your
face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask
before assisting with theirs. If you are travelling with more than one small child, pick your favourite.”
Marvellous.
Reminds me of teh sense of humour that put labels on the cycling kit which said somenthing along the lines of ‘Woman do your job right….’
very Funny. But can it fly upside down?
I’m trying my best, Soutie. Honest I am. 🙂
Soutie – I too love the in-flight announcements.
“In the event of an emergency landing you will be advised by the crew as to the brace position. Tighten your seat belt; Bend forward; Grip your ankles…….and kiss your arse goodbye.”
“In the event of a landing on water….” Otherwise known as “When we crash into the sea…”
I was on a longish haul once from Auckland up to Tarawa in Kiribati (the former Gilbert and Ellice Islands) in a seat where a previous occupant had whiled away the long hours over the Pacific by drawing little sharks’ fins circing the illustration on the safety card of the plane ‘alighting on water’.
Very reassuring.
Hiya Claire. Welcome back and hope all is well.
OZ
Hi, Claire! 🙂
Oz, it reminds me of the film, Airplane.
Assume crash positions.
In one recent flight from Paris a couple of years ago, we had take off..almost. Then plane slowed suddenly and stopped. Very reassuring. Then, as we were stuck on ground for two hours, we watched a whole series of French engineers tread in and out of cockpit. I was sat at front and so could see right in -they even had what looked like instructions for the, er, plane, spread out on floor of cockpit.
Hiya; thanks, nice to be back, Janus and OZ 🙂
Morning all
Claire, you’ve reminded me of a flight I was on out of Jan Smuts (Jhb)about ’84 or so. We got a burst tyre on take off, frightening stuff, from full acceleration to emergency stop in seconds!
Here’s a few more of the ‘announcements’ that In received
“Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but
we’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Kulula Airlines.”
“Your seats cushions can be used for flotation; and in the event of an
emergency water landing, please paddle to shore and take them with our compliments.”
“Heard on Kulula 255 just after a very hard landing in Cape Town : The
flight attendant came on the intercom and said, “That was quite a bump
and I know what y’all are thinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t the
airline’s fault, it wasn’t the pilot’s fault, it wasn’t the flight attendant’s fault, it was the asphalt.”
😆
Better than the serious gung-ho attitude of some Yankee pilots. “O’Hare is now closed with fog but we’re going in just the same!” And we did.
Janus, made me laugh 🙂
Excellent Soutie. I think the airline deserves a pat on the back for for such cheeky and novel advertising. The livery and humour is superb though I might substitute ‘nose cone’ for ‘impact zone’. This image could easily translate to Ryan Airline – I have heard Ryan Air announcements in flight asking passengers to clear the area of crumbs in front of them as they cant afford cleaners. I once worked for British United Air (Car) Ferries (in the days when Freddie Laker was MD of British United Airways. I am sure I saw a passenger once using an umbrella in flight to prevent water dripping on to his head. (About 1965 and a propeller plane – Corvair I think.)
NB Soutie on a question of grammar. Have I used “substitute” the right way? I know its not a two-way street. If Wayne Rooney was taken off and Sir Alex put Donald Duck on in his place do we say “Wayne Rooney was substituted for Donald Duck” or “Donald Duck was substituted for Wayne Rooney”? Any takers on this? And does it matter!
Soutie: Yes I did see the cabin crew announcements as well. Also very funny. Some of my ex-colleagues who still work at the establishment concerned said in the email thread that the travel department were looking for a new approved airline, since British Airways are such a pain now. Maybe this should be it. Pity they don’t fly “Out of Africa”, as it were.
PG: Yes you have used substitute correctly. New is substituted for old, and it might matter if Donald Duck was substituted for Wayne Rooney. He would probably play better!
Howzit again FEEG
You’re not going to believe this but here goes;
Kalula Air is owned by Comair, Comair if my memory serves me correctly was set up by a worldwide carrier 20 years or so ago to stop SAA interfering with their connecting flights and to reduce the cost of them. Without Comair my (return) connecting flight to Jhb for an intercontinental flight would be almost half the cost of the longhaul flight!
I suppose that by now you’ve guessed the next bit, Comair is owned by B.A.
😆
Love this plane!!
Throne Zone ought to have in brackets – “exit for stroppy gay cabincrew members who yell “Goodbye cruel world” wrench door off and go “wheeeee” down the inflatable shutes on to the tarmac.” Probably too many characters but you get my drift.
Ooops and greetings to Claire! Nice av. 🙂