Southwest Flight Attendant As Rapper Delivers Standard Safety Announcement

I write on this, the busiest travel day of the year when it comes to commercial flying. 

If there's anything that will help get you through the airport and flying on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, it's a sense of humor.  And maybe you'll be lucky enough to be on a Southwest flight with David Holmes, a flight attendant who sometimes delivers the obligatory, you've-heard-it-a-hundred-times, pre-flight safety announcement as a short rap song.

In an interview with National Geographic Traveler, LasVegas-based Holmes said his is "an evolving performance" that began when he was training as a flight attendant and delivered the standard announcement for his flight attendant's graduation class.  Realizing many passengers tuned out the routine instructions, he thought he'd try it on board a real flight, and a Southwest flight attendant supervisor happened to be on board.

"Nice job," she said, and he's been rapping off and on ever since.

A passenger caught his performance with a cell phone and told him she intended to post it on YouTube.  So far, says Holmes, no recording contract has come his way.  But 80,000 folks have caught him on YouTube, and Holmes continues the Southwest tradition of letting its employees make flying a bit more fun.