Ayu music on my flight back home...

[Bigtop]

I just recently came back from California, flying with Delta Air Lines. We stopped over at Salt Lake City coming back from Los Angeles, stopping over at SLC to transfer for our final flight back home.

During our flight, guess what...

I was listening to Ayumi Hamasaki during flight! And it was only a domestic flight - not even close to a transpacific flight. And it was only two hours. (Great job Delta for making the flight earlier than on-time performance...)

What do you think - Ayu on my flight back home? That's really surprising, especially when I was flying aboard a McDonnell Douglas MD-90, a domestic aircraft that is out of production and is slightly narrower than a 737, and it's an aircraft that cannot really go transpacific on a full load non-stop.

Take a look at the "J-Pop" section of the list of in-flight music presented on my flight (the flight that I had must have not changed their in-flight music list because it's kind of early in the month, and usually during that time there are those so-called "media loading" times, and maybe they have not changed its list yet before we disembarked...). Maybe this might really interest you, and it's one of the more recent songs that Ayu released (no, it's not that Sunrise/Sunset single...). Here's the reference: http://msp.imirus.com/Mpowered/imiru...sue=5&page=120

(Even they note that the channel that I have is available on all Delta aircraft. How wonderful Delta could make...)

(The September edition of J-pop on Delta features Kobukuro's song "Niji", which is actually used in Japan for promoting JAL, part of an airline alliance that is Delta not part of; JAL is part of oneworld, Delta is part of SkyTeam. That's really unusual, and I call this "no JAL exclusivity" here...)

(And even American Airlines, one of the most prominent competitors to Delta Air Lines, featured Ayu on their "Japanese Horizons" feature for August 2009 in their in-flight music, but they're only available on Boeing 777s which is used on select international flights with that aircraft, mostly flying to/from Japan...)

If you have any comments about this, as well as any past experiences of flying an airline flight with Ayu featured on your flight's in-flight music service, feel free to tell us.

[Polyrhythm]

Ok...........the way you put it....I thought....you meant Ayu was IN the plane...WITH YOU. I was like sooooooooo lucky!

[pommy48]

ah i remember threads like this, but i saw mirrorcle world 2 years ago on eva

[Bigtop]

It was only in the in-flight entertainment system...

(And by the way, one of my students from my high school was going home, and they were in my flight! Certainly they were not listening to Japanese pop on our flight, which was Delta Air Lines flight number 1267, with an Alaska Airlines codeshare...)

[gothicayu]

its really cool that they add jpop in the airplaine

[Ayumi27]

Yeah, every time I fly Delta, there's an interesting variety of j-pop songs compared to other airlines (Even though I only take the Buenos Aires - Atlanta route)

[AyUta]

yeah, i think it's neat.

[tasking]

Originally Posted by DEEP RIVER

Ok...........the way you put it....I thought....you meant Ayu was IN the plane...WITH YOU. I was like sooooooooo lucky!

When has Ayu ever taken a commercial plane? lol

[mcluva420]

^that would be so cool

I was on Virgin Airlines to Seattle from San Francisco, and they had J-Pop radio, M-Pop, C-pop. They never show the song title though, but the songs are great (i dont remember hearing Ayu, but I think she was definitely played )

[LydenLeaf]

Wow..that would be a lovely experience to have.
It's really exciting to hear Ayu's songs being played in different places even though in the ending credits of movies and that makes me come back for more. You must be really happy.

[C+R+E+AYUMI]

In Cathay pacific there was a huuuge selection of j-pop...exept Ayu!
i was so angry!! grr
I listened to Hikki and new nakashima's Overload that i never listened to.

[Crystal_Ageha]

Wow, very cool! I might be taking a trip soon. I'll have to look for Ayu.

[rakeru]

that's so cool! when i checked the jpop channel on my last flight, it was all unknown stuff. laaaaame.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

I thought you meant you were on the same plane as Ayu ^^;

I didn't know Ayu wouldn't use a commercial plane. American celebrities use them.

[Mirrorcle]

Aww man, I was so excited when I was on a delta flight a month ago and took a photo of the booklet...

Well, I guess if for some reason any of you can't view that webpage, you can check out my kind-of-bad photo! =D

Spoiler:

[rusuke]

I also thought Ayu was also on that plane.

But that's great that there was a Jpop song being played on your flight.
Our local airline offers Jpop section in the flight Radio too and the texts are in Japanese scripts.

[C+R+E+AYUMI]

Originally Posted by rusuke

I also thought Ayu was also on that plane.

But that's great that there was a Jpop song being played on your flight.
Our local airline offers Jpop section in the flight Radio too and the texts are in Japanese scripts.

me too! i was sooo excited