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There I was at 37000 feet...listening to the Hip!

Last week I was on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Vancouver.
I am an Air Canada employee and was lucky to get a seat in business class.

This Boeing 767 does not have the upgraded interior so it has a large projection screen for the in flight movie.
The movie was Wild Hogs. Not a great movie and I had seen it a week earlier.

So I fell asleep somewhere near Winnipeg and woke up over Calgary.
As my eyes began to focus I noticed Gord Downie on the screen!
My first thought was that maybe it was an interview or a documentary. But then the screen changed to show the whole band and they were playing!!
I scrambled to get the head phones on and started rocking to Grace Too!

This is amazing!
Here comes the flight attendant...."Could I get a Sleman Cream Ale please". Nothing goes better than the Hip and beer!

It turned out to be a 5 (or more) song excert from the That Night in Toronto dvd. The songs were Grace Too, Courage, Bobcageon, Nautical Disaster and Litlle Bones...maybe more while I was sleeping.

I wanted to head to the back of the full plane to see how many others were rocking to the tunes but I didn't want to leave my seat!

What a great way to pass the time.....Listening to the Hip, drinking beer, and getting paid to do it!!!

Can't wait until next Wednesday night - The Hip and beer in Muskoka!!!

Cheers.


On a side note: The newer aircraft that we have come with a personal entertainment LCD screen in the seatback in front of you.
Until recently, World Container was in the music menu. It had been there for at least the last 4 or 5 months. Unfortunately, it has been removed.
Hopeully we will get it back so that others can enjoy the Hip and others might discover them for the first time!!

Awesome job!

That Night In Toronto was the music video of choice when I flew from Cowtown to Vancouver last week.

That Night in Toronto is one of the current movie choices on Air Canada flights with the new personal seat-back entertainment system. As of last week, when I flew up to Montreal.

Is it the entire show or is it a short version like I saw??

I dunno, I didn't watch it. I was busy sleeping for most of that flight.

But it was under the "movies" selection, so it was probably full length. I have to say that on longer flights, Air Canada's seat back entertainment system is great -- great variety of choices.

767F/O Wrote:Is it the entire show or is it a short version like I saw??

Entire show.

Thanks....I think it's great having the Hip reach such a large audience with the dvd playing onboard!!!

Can't wait until Wednesday!!!

I was on that flight - last monday morning the 15th at 10:30...I have no status with AC so I was in the back of the bus. I didn't have headphones for the movie and I look up 3.5 or so hours into the flight and low and behold I see Downie on the tube - my neighbour gave me his (unopened) headphones and it was fantastic!

in all my flights, that was a blast - beat my emergency landing. I'm right now sitting in the Admiral Club in Dallas waiting for my connector to Mexico City and thought I'd drop in and peruse this site.

I just watched Canada lose in soccer on cbc.ca - streaming for freeeee - the nhl could take a lesson there.

Happy Canada Day all!

Edward.

pardon me... my flight from TO to Van was the 18th, not the 15th - last week was at home in the beach(es).

Cheers, again!

Too bad Air Transat doesn't offer it.
It would be cool to listen to it as I fall asleep on the redeye to Amsterdam.
YEAH !!!