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German travel firm offers nudists bare flights

German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane thanks to a new service from an eastern German travel firm.

A travel agency website - Ossiurlaub.de - is to start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing £370.
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"I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer," said Enrico Hess, the managing director. "It's an unusual gap in the market."

The 55 passengers will have to remain clothed until they board, and dress before disembarking, said Mr Hess. The crew will remain clothed for safety reasons.

Mr Hess admitted the flight was expensive but said it was due to using a small plane. Naturism, or "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis but blossomed again after the Second World War.

"I don't want people to get the wrong idea. It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air or something like that," said Mr Hess. "We're a perfectly normal holiday company."

Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/30/wnude130.xml)

Would you take this flight?

I might, if I could vet my fellow passengers, I don't want someone's old balls dangling past me as they goes to the bathroom.

When I first saw the headline for this I thought they would have to strip and put on paper gowns in order to get through security, followed up with a complimentary cavity search. :p

I might, if I could vet my fellow passengers, I don't want someone's old balls dangling past me as someone goes to the bathroom.

Two rows of seats, three deep. You're on the aisle. That means when window seat and their mate get up, you get either ass or balls in the mush as they squish past. Now if thats what you got on board for, all well and good but.....

Not to mention the problems that might arise, due to difficulties with diligence in the lavatory itself......

Please NB that it's not "Germans", but East Germans who pull this off...

Anyhow, I'm astonished to see that this apparently passed the sanitation regulations (I mean, I found an article by Die Welt, which makes it credible enough for me); I know I personally would not want to sit in an airplane seat that's been used by someone else in the nude before.

Despite all those issues.. I'm all in for FKK and I frequent nudist beaches, but there are many places I wouldn't want to be naked in not because of the visual effects, but for the sanitary and practical reasons - I've never flown with one of their aircraft, but when I imagine undressing and dressing in one of those I have flown with, I really can't see how that's comfortable.

I really think it's just a very, very silly idea, albeit a nice PR stunt. Funny how it doesn't say anything about it on their homepage tho', even if one looks for it..

Please NB that it's not "Germans", but East Germans who pull this off...


Fnarr, fnarr...

The other thing is this - surely its not that long a flight...and they have to get dressed again before they get off.

One hour. Now imagine crowding 55 people into that aircraft, stowing away their handluggage, and then proceeding to undress.. where? I don't know whether I'm just an unnatural undresser, but with me, the act includes needing a certain increased space around me to give me room to stretch and flail my arms, stretch out my legs, bend over etc... considering the commotion that's already on when people crowd onto a plane without the extra act of undressing, that's nigh impossible.

Anyhow, so you get on, you undress, you receive several elbow-fuls of othe rundressers, you settle down for seven minutes and then you go on for some more of that elbow when you start to dress again to be in time and dressed when you're about to leave the plane again... I hope they install cameras.

You've already been on one of these flights, haven't you

The other thing is this - surely its not that long a flight...and they have to get dressed again before they get off.

One hour. Now imagine crowding 55 people into that aircraft, stowing away their handluggage, and then proceeding to undress.. where? I don't know whether I'm just an unnatural undresser, but with me, the act includes needing a certain increased space around me to give me room to stretch and flail my arms, stretch out my legs, bend over etc... considering the commotion that's already on when people crowd onto a plane without the extra act of undressing, that's nigh impossible.

Anyhow, so you get on, you undress, you receive several elbow-fuls of othe rundressers, you settle down for seven minutes and then you go on for some more of that elbow when you start to dress again to be in time and dressed when you're about to leave the plane again... I hope they install cameras.

I ask...what exactly is the point, especially on a one-hour flight? It's madness. It's a damn PR stunt. And it won't last.

Now, if an airline that catered to nudists were to go all international, complete with long flights, full service, etc. then it might be worth looking into. In fact, I envision the advent of the triple-decker huge-ass plane, in which the plane is split into the following areas:

--First deck, in which it's basically like a normal airplane. An assload of passengers herd into coach, watch a boring-ass movie, attempt to sleep, suck on cheap peanuts and small plastic cups of this or that, pay $10 for a beer, and try not to go insane on that all-day flight from NYC to Beijing.

--Second deck, in which people go up to eat, relax, play cards, surf the Web for things, etc., assuming the FAA ever allows internet access on planes. Possible fee for entry, more likely fees associated with use of the individual areas. You want to eat, you pay; you want to walk around, you pay; you want to look up your hotel, you pay. Not expensive, but might be worth a visit if you're on a direct flight halfway around the damn world.

--Third deck, the "anything goes" deck. Private rooms, private movie screenings, and booths where people can go on the internet for anything they damn well please. Champagne, beer, debauchery, and attendants clad in nearly nothing - on one half of the deck. On the other half, it's relatively civilized, although nudity, sleeping in something resembling a bed, and cuddling are allowed and, in fact, encouraged. Comes with a significantly higher fee, so all those college kids looking to spend a semester in Hong Kong had better save up their nickels and dimes for the debauchery section. As an added bonus, all the personal booths and private rooms are soundproof, so you could be looking up some pretty fucked-up shit on the computer and the person next to you would have no idea you're not reading the Wall Street Journal.

Now all we need is some engineers to put this shit together.

I ask...what exactly is the point, especially on a one-hour flight? It's madness. It's a damn PR stunt. And it won't last.

Now, if an airline that catered to nudists were to go all international, complete with long flights, full service, etc. then it might be worth looking into.

Nah, not a publicity stunt. The pivotal part is this one:

A travel agency website - Ossiurlaub.de - is to start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom

Erfurt is a city in the former East, Usedom (the Baltic Sea in general) was a traditional vacation spot for East Germans, and it was very, very normal and popular and "un-sleazy" to spend your vacation on nudist beaches etc. in Eastern Germany.

So basically that's what they're doing - keeping up the tradition of nudist beach vacations with the added perk of flying there instead of driving (it's quite a bit more expensive, though, so who knows who's going to shell out for it).

The company isn't called "Ossiurlaub.de" ("Ossi" = nick name for Eastern Germans since some time after reunification; often used somewhat derogatorily but pretty mainstream by now; "Urlaub" = "vacation") for nothing. ;)

sounds like the perfect place to steal everyones clothes :p

That's one way to make sure no-one is sneaking in a bomb...

is the plane crew naked too ?

Nah, they'd have special hats. So you know that they're the crew and not just some stranger offering you a drink.

is the plane crew naked too ?

Nah, they'd have special hats. So you know that they're the crew and not just some stranger offering you a drink.

got to love those funny hats

You've already been on one of these flights, haven't you

I neither have a time machine nor acquired any other means to have been on the July 5th, 2008 flight.

...or any other nude transportation, thankyouverymuch.


So basically that's what they're doing - keeping up the tradition of nudist beach vacations with the added perk of flying there instead of driving
Flying there instead of driving is fine, but they haven't been driving naked, either, so why the need to fly naked to "keep up the feeling of the FKK holidays"?

That's one way to make sure no-one is sneaking in a bomb...

They could hide it up their gluteus maximus.;)

sounds like the perfect place to steal everyones clothes :p

*plots*

Erfurt is a city in the former East, Usedom (the Baltic Sea in general) was a traditional vacation spot for East Germans, and it was very, very normal and popular and "un-sleazy" to spend your vacation on nudist beaches etc. in Eastern Germany.


I would have thought it the other way round...The West being for the nude beaches and the East more inclined to keep the kit on....The things one learns on the intarweb......

Flying there instead of driving is fine, but they haven't been driving naked, either, so why the need to fly naked to "keep up the feeling of the FKK holidays"?They would legally be allowed to do so, if they wanted to.

Flying there instead of driving is fine, but they haven't been driving naked, either, so why the need to fly naked to "keep up the feeling of the FKK holidays"?
^That.

The only thing more revolting that having some fat hairy ass crawling across you on the way to the head is having that same fat hairy ass crawling across you on the way back.

But I'm sure there are some who would find this idea f(ass)cinating. :rolleyes:

I might but only if Heidi Klum is the only other passenger

Naturism, or "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis

Jesus. I already didn't like the Nazis but that is just beyond the pale.

Teehee, this story came on the news over here a short while ago. Since the flights haven't happened yet, the channel used footage from an American nudist flight, so it appears the title is misleading... :D

Teehee, this story came on the news over here a short while ago. Since the flights haven't happened yet, the channel used footage from an American nudist flight, so it appears the title is misleading... :D

Where's this news footage you speak of? And what airline in the US book nudist flights?

Where's this news footage you speak of? And what airline in the US book nudist flights?It was on one of the less newsworthy channels, and they didn't mention which flight it was, but it was naked people on a plane, and the channel referred to it as American. I don't think I'd post pictures even if I found any...

Maybe it was a private charter? I've been looking it up and no major airlines in the US offer any kind of nudist flights.Yeah, me neither, but there has been a nudist flight at least once. I saw pictures, damnit!

It was on one of the less newsworthy channels, and they didn't mention which flight it was, but it was naked people on a plane, and the channel referred to it as American. I don't think I'd post pictures even if I found any...

Maybe it was a private charter? I've been looking it up and no major airlines in the US offer any kind of nudist flights.

Yeah, me neither, but there has been a nudist flight at least once. I saw pictures, damnit!

It was probably a charter. You can do whatever you want (almost) on a charter. You could have an orgy on a charter. I don't see how that would fly with Americans (no pun intended) as we seem to be extremely germ phobic. Fasting a seat belt that's been fastened on someone else's completely nakes ;ap, sitting in cloth seats, ect. I dont' see that happening on a commerical flight.

Der Spiegel had a... nice article on this story. Y'all should look it up :p

is the plane crew naked too ?
Apparently not.

There are a few basic rules. For example, no hot drinks will be served and there will be certain hygienic regulations. Passengers won't be sitting directly on the seats but on specially sized cloths laid on them. And the crew will have to remain clothed, too.