WOW, so this is a thing
Dec. 26th, 2017 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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penrosesun:
So, while looking for something completely different, I accidentally stumbled across the website for WOW Air – an airline I had never heard of before, but which I am now convinced has the single greatest airline website in existence.
First off, they have some incredibly cheap flights to Reykjavík – which I’m sure would be fantastic if I was planning on going to Reykjavík literally any time in the near future.
But that’s just the baseline price, so I naturally went to check the ticket price breakdown, and found… um…?
Like, apparently, you need to pay extra to get a “standard seat”. Which, I mean, I’ve never flown to Reykjavík before, but my sense is that it’s a *little* long to be standing like a commuter or Operation Solomon evacuee.
I checked to see if there was inflight entertainment, and the website helpfully explains that the only inflight entertainment is “the thrill of sitting high up in the sky and enjoying the flight”, although they do have a magazine, and they apparently serve skyr onboard, which, sure, why not?
But the real gems here are all of the Icelandic tourism promotional stuff. They’ve got a quick Instagram-style breakdown of some of their neater tourist destinations, which, among other things, claims that “As far as mountains go, Kirkjufell is the Mads Mikkelsen of mountains.”
And THEN, there are the some more in depth articles which… Let me just show a few of them:
Like, I don’t even know where to start. Their *tourism advertising* includes cat spotting, a hotel in the literal middle of nowhere (the website boasts that "tourists travel from Australia, Tasmania, Japan and China to visit the world’s loneliest hotel” which… why those four countries, though?), and apparently, a bike share company, which is also owned by the airline for um, reasons.
There’s also a punk history museum, with this gem of a description: “Housed in a former public bathroom at no. 0 Bankastraeti in downtown Reykjavik, this tiny but charming museum is more enthralling than museums triple its size.”
And there’s an entire article assuring potential tourists that while “You might think that you can only eat decent vegetarian or vegan food in the capital” there is also apparently a single other vegetarian restaurant in Iceland near Akureyri.
Also, these are some of the actual call signs that this airline’s planes have:
Like… I will probably never take a flight on this airline, and their website has done almost nothing to convince me to take a trip to Iceland. But I am legitimately happy that this exists on the internet, and I just wanted to share it.
I’M READY TO GO TO ICELAND 2018
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penrosesun:
So, while looking for something completely different, I accidentally stumbled across the website for WOW Air – an airline I had never heard of before, but which I am now convinced has the single greatest airline website in existence.
First off, they have some incredibly cheap flights to Reykjavík – which I’m sure would be fantastic if I was planning on going to Reykjavík literally any time in the near future.
But that’s just the baseline price, so I naturally went to check the ticket price breakdown, and found… um…?
Like, apparently, you need to pay extra to get a “standard seat”. Which, I mean, I’ve never flown to Reykjavík before, but my sense is that it’s a *little* long to be standing like a commuter or Operation Solomon evacuee.
I checked to see if there was inflight entertainment, and the website helpfully explains that the only inflight entertainment is “the thrill of sitting high up in the sky and enjoying the flight”, although they do have a magazine, and they apparently serve skyr onboard, which, sure, why not?
But the real gems here are all of the Icelandic tourism promotional stuff. They’ve got a quick Instagram-style breakdown of some of their neater tourist destinations, which, among other things, claims that “As far as mountains go, Kirkjufell is the Mads Mikkelsen of mountains.”
And THEN, there are the some more in depth articles which… Let me just show a few of them:
Like, I don’t even know where to start. Their *tourism advertising* includes cat spotting, a hotel in the literal middle of nowhere (the website boasts that "tourists travel from Australia, Tasmania, Japan and China to visit the world’s loneliest hotel” which… why those four countries, though?), and apparently, a bike share company, which is also owned by the airline for um, reasons.
There’s also a punk history museum, with this gem of a description: “Housed in a former public bathroom at no. 0 Bankastraeti in downtown Reykjavik, this tiny but charming museum is more enthralling than museums triple its size.”
And there’s an entire article assuring potential tourists that while “You might think that you can only eat decent vegetarian or vegan food in the capital” there is also apparently a single other vegetarian restaurant in Iceland near Akureyri.
Also, these are some of the actual call signs that this airline’s planes have:
Like… I will probably never take a flight on this airline, and their website has done almost nothing to convince me to take a trip to Iceland. But I am legitimately happy that this exists on the internet, and I just wanted to share it.
I’M READY TO GO TO ICELAND 2018
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