6 Hours of Mannequins Flying From Newark to San Francisco

Is there any­thing worse than fly­ing from Newark to San Fran­cis­co? Maybe it’s watch­ing man­nequins tak­ing this cross-coun­try flight. Talk about tedi­um. And yet there’s some­thing a lit­tle bril­liant about this six hour adver­tise­ment from Vir­gin Air­lines — which promis­es a more inspir­ing flight. I mean how many six hour adver­tise­ments have you seen, let alone ones that have “action” from start to fin­ish? Some­where, some­one’s going to watch this thing all the way through. Maybe it’s you.

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