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“Please listen carefully to these safety instructions…even if you’re a frequent flyer…”

Let’s face it – your average pre-take-off safety briefing isn’t exactly what you’d call an attention grabber.

Here, we salute those airlines and flight crews who’ve made locating emergency exits, fastening seat belts and inflating life jackets a little more entertaining.

“If you don’t like our service, or the flight gets too long, we have six emergency exits…”

“…if you wish to smoke, please go outside the aircraft.”

Safety to the tune of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”

Safety rapped: “Thank you for the fact that I wasn’t ignored, this is Southwest Airlines…welcome aboard!”

“…at the pointy end of the plane we have our captain…”

Give him a beat! Southwest’s rapping flight attendant

Air NZ goes outdoors for the “Bear” essentials of safety

Very important: Air New Zealand’s Middle-earth safety briefing

Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…

(Image: georgeparrilla)

About the author

Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

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