A couple was caught reportedly joining the mile high club – on video. A passenger who saw the man and woman enter the lavatory pulled out his phone and recorded their exit – one at a time, without anyone else entering in the meantime.
The woman opens the door first, and has a serious look on her face, while you can see the male passenger still inside the lavatory – with a huge grin. A few moments pass and then he steps out, too – a bit more serious but with an eyebrow raise as he heads back into the aisle of the aircraft.
The specific flight where this happened wasn’t noted, and though it’s presented as authentic and comments don’t question it, I can’t say it wasn’t staged. Still, while joining the Mile High Club isn’t exactly common, it isn’t rare either.
It is, however, increasingly difficult on domestic aircraft with ‘space saver’-style lavatories with a whole let less room. That means extra points for degree of difficulty.
There’s also nothing sexy about an airplane lavatory except on some premium Gulf and Southeast Asian carriers in Airbus A380 first class. There’s usually a line for the lavatory, at least in economy, so you won’t go unnoticed.
It’s noteworthy when it happens on board with celebrities, like the Victoria’s Secret model who got caught doing it, the supermodel indignant that her privacy is violated when other passengers watch her have sex with her girlfriend at her seat , Jamie Foxx bragging about it or American Airlines American Airlines losing rocker Tommy Lee’s luggage after he did it. British Airways actually promoted when Elizabeth Hurley did it.
Implausibly, a flight attendant once claimed that on a flight she worked two groups of passengers joined the mile high club and a pilot joined in. Oh, this was a short regional jet flight, too. There’s a lot of made up stories about the Mile High Club.
People have been joining the ‘Mile High Club’ since 1916 when Lawrence Burst Sperry, inventor of the autopilot, took a Curtis C-2 Flying Boat off the coast of Long Island and spent time with a woman whose husband was off in World War I. They acrashed the plane into the bay and were rescued – naked – by duck hunters.
Ah, those cute crazy kids. And I’ll give you another laugh. Many years ago when as a teenager I was learning to fly Cessnas I saw stickers about the “Mile High Club.” The first time I soloed a plane up to that altitude I happily told everybody in the flight school that I too had joined the group. There were a lot of puzzled looks until somebody explained what it really meant!
Looks staged
I once joined the “Mile Long Club” on a overnight train barreling through France.
First Class A380 is comfortable.
Don’t accuse the man and woman. How do you know one of them does not have a disability and needs assistance to defecate?
It is possible…..Oh, I made a mistake. I do not know it was a man and woman. They may both self identify as men or non-binary.
Slow news day? People need to mind their own business smh
So what? So long as there isn’t a line for the restroom I don’t think it’s anybody’s business but their own.
Given the size of airline bathrooms I doubt there would be any ability to provide assistance.
This video has been around for years (definitely pre-pandemic). It was on a Virgin Atlantic flight based on the original poster. Five minutes of Googling would have highlighted this.
Absolutely staged. Chick would be looking both ways in a timid fashion while slowly opening the door. And no guy is going to be facing the camera, more or less be seen in the doorway, with a grin on his face when the door opens. He’d be flush with a general calmness aura having just done the deed.
Between premium economy and business on the right-side of some AA 787s is a lavatory big enough for two adults to fit inside. Not too long ago I saw two adults and an infant go in together to use the white baby changing table there to clean up an infant.
So this male passenger “Karen” has nothing better to do than film the lavatory door and getting into other people’s business? Get a life! Who cares what they were doing inside the lavatory. Did their actions pose a danger to the aircraft or others on board? Too many nosy people with too much time on they’re hands.
Economy lav… Disgusting
Many years ago Air NZ 747 lavs were much larger and I became a member of this club with the FA. Great time had by all!
I am in the mile high club over a thousand times. With several different women. How do you do it? You might ask. Easy, the secret is that I live in Colorado Springs, CO. We are at 6020 feet…..