John Travolta Angers Qantas Employees With In-Flight Video Appearance

By Sarah Crow Posted Mar 22nd 2011 01:15PM

Looks like someone was taking his role in 'Broken Arrow' a bit too seriously.

Employees at Australia's national airline, Qantas, are more than a bit miffed after actor John Travolta showed up on-screen in full pilot regalia to introduce their most recent in-flight safety video.

Travolta, who is a certified private pilot, tells passengers, "This is your captain speaking -- well, maybe not today," which Qantas employees have panned as "tacky" and "corny," in addition to being insistent about having a "real" pilot make the announcement.

While Travolta's experience has mainly involved flying small planes, in 2010, he famously piloted Oprah Winfrey's entire studio audience to Australia as part of an all-expenses paid trip to celebrate her talk show's final season.

Check out John Travolta's video for Qantas.

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Tuesday 22 March

By Margie

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I don't get what the problem is. he is an experienced pilot.

By priscilla

yes he is..he flew his own jet into airport my son worked at...he flies and owns more than just little planes...good grief..is someone out to slur John?

By James

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hes a NUT

Wednesday 23 March

By BTDT

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Evidently, Quantas employees don't have enough to do.

By joe american

so does ever other religon especiall the muslim brother hood.

By charlie05

what qantas does't have pilots who should have that spot
tired of celebs in everything

By Anna

What????

By rose

Ii did red your post three times but i still can't figure out what you are saying.Its as if you took a bunch of words and threw them together.

By Deb Colacci

Oh good grief! Lighten up. What's wrong with it? Relax and have a laugh.

By fiona

I guess I always thought the safety video or demonstration was something not to be taken lightly. My sister is a former flight attendant and she took the safety part of her job very seriously.
I doubt that John Travolta would be around to take the lead in case of an emergency.

By KateS.

I agree Deb. John is super. So nice to see something else. Tired of stupid Sheen and all his silly antics...

By lou

go to google maps and type in "jumbolair florida" , switch to satillite view and look for the house to the right at the north end of the runway and that is travolta's house...zoom in and you will see a quantas 707 parked there....he knows what he's talking about religion not withstanding

Scientology is NOT a religion.....its a CULT

By Big E

I didn't see a darn thing wrong with it. In fact, if I'm stressed out because of flying and that came on, it would relax me. The last thing I need is an "up tight" pilot 2 drinks away from slamming the plane into the side of a mountain telling me about safety.

Nice work John!

By main system

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JOHN TRAVOLTA CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS, BECAUSE WHATEVER HE DOES IS SO GREAT. I JUST LOVE HIM. HE IS A WONDERFUL, NICE GUY. AND NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, ITS GOOD WITH ME. AND SHOULD BE WITH EVERYBODY. THEY ARE JUST JELIOUS OF HIM.

By shirleyA

I feel the same way about Charlie Sheen!

By tony

he should have said "get off my case toilet face".

By Bill

That is hilarious. I wonder how many people get it!

By suncatcher

John Travolta is an experienced JET PILOT and owns his own jet. He has flown for decades - safely.

This was a stroke of genius by Qantas - no one watches the in flight safety info any more. If having John Travolta do the presentation instead of a flight attendant and getting more people to watch, that's great! Way to go Qantas and John T.!

By TheDevilinVegas

It seems more and more like Australia is the Arizona of the Pacific.

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