I'VE HAD A SUPER GLUE ACCIDENT! everyone remain calm...

Fly naked on nudist holiday flight
Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:52am EST

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.

Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros ($735).

"It's expensive, I know," managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's because the plane's very small. There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."

*I don't know if I agree with that. I think it should would depend on the physical appearance of the other passengers. I mean, a plane full of this:

should definitely have a different price point than a plane full of this:

The 55 passengers will have to remain clothed until they board, and dress before disembarking, said Hess. The crew will remain clothed throughout the flight for safety reasons.

*Thank heaven for that. Fifty-five naked German tourists is certainly more than enough nudity for anyone.

"I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer," Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's an unusual gap in the market."

*...naw...too easy...

Naturism, or "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis but blossomed again after the Second World War, particularly in eastern Germany.

*So maybe the Nazis weren't all COMPLETELY nuts after all. Although, honestly, I imagine that a good many of those SS officers wouldn't have minded a bunch of blonde haired, blue eyed "perfect Aryans" running around in their birthday suits.

"There are FKK hotels where you can go into the restaurants and shops naked, for example," Hess said. "For FKK fans -- not that I'm one of them -- it's nothing unusual."

*So maybe this guy isn't COMPLETELY nuts after all, either.

"I don't want people to get the wrong idea. It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air or something like that," he added. "We're a perfectly normal holiday company."

*Ummm...yeah...that's just what I was thinking. Well, that and no one would have to hog the bathroom to join the Mile High Club.



(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan, editing by Paul Casciato, emphasis and commentary added by SMC)
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