Delta’s Awesome ’80s In-Flight Video

I may not fly Delta Airlines much anymore, but I have to say that their newest in-flight safety video is totally tubular. An inspired homage to the ’80s, it freshens up what has become a stale presentation that a majority of travelers do not pay attention to anymore. Fueled by a synthtastic pop instrumental, the colorful clip, created by New York-based advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, makes references to so much from the decade of decadence: leg warmers, Rubik’s Cube, voluminous hair, Atari, pastel clothes, breakdancing, Alf, and in the final moment, a nod to the disaster movie spoof Airplane! You clearly need to have lived through the era or be retroactively obsessed with that film to get the joke, but it’s great.