Miss, that gentleman over there wearing the foam neck pillow would like to buy you a drink. In an effort to promote its new route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Virgin America has introduced an in-flight system that allows passengers to send drinks to each other.
But in a twist that harkens back to junior high, the system allows you to flirt with the passenger of your affection without even looking at her or talking to her.
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Instead, passengers can simply use the in-flight entertainment system to pinpoint the person they like, then have a drink, snack or meal sent over. Once you buy the hottie you like a drink, you can follow up with a text message to the seat, WKMG reported.
Sir Richard Branson announced the launch of the new in-flight flirting in a YouTube video. "Your chance of de-planing with a plus-one are at least 50 percent," he says. Alternately, your chances of getting inundated with more cocktails than you want and stalker-ish text messages are 80 percent.
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