Peloton classes are coming to your next Delta flight

November 2, 2021 3:51 PM

The classes range in length from five minutes to 20 minutes and will help passengers relax, stretch or fall asleep.
posted by folklore724 (18 comments total)

Link appears to be broken.

But just based on the headline: Come on, people, show me some effort! Show me some sweat! Our altitude's down to 2500 feet, and we've got to clear those mountains up ahead!
posted by Naberius at 3:57 PM on November 2, 2021 [4 favorites]

Mod note: Link should be fixed now.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:00 PM on November 2, 2021

Is this news or is it a press release?
posted by zardoz at 4:04 PM on November 2, 2021 [5 favorites]

The way things are going on Delta flights these days, are they going to have kickboxing?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:11 PM on November 2, 2021 [3 favorites]

Urge to kill...rising.
posted by kirkaracha at 4:23 PM on November 2, 2021 [6 favorites]

Thanks to Anne Helen Petersen I see Peloton in a kinder light these days... and Delta is by far my favorite US based airline based on recent experiences. So I approve.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 4:32 PM on November 2, 2021

zardoz: "Is this news or is it a press release?"

It's on CNN Business' website, so I believe the term of art is "advertorial"
posted by chavenet at 4:37 PM on November 2, 2021 [3 favorites]

Kickboxing? Sport of the Future?...
posted by Windopaene at 4:40 PM on November 2, 2021 [1 favorite]

I was like, Delta's putting spin bikes on their planes? Then I read the article and realized the Peloton classes for Delta are all stretching and meditation, no actual biking or jogging involved. Curious how they're going to make stretching class work for the sucker stuck in the middle seat, though.
posted by Pandora Kouti at 5:25 PM on November 2, 2021 [4 favorites]

From the company that brought you child killing treadmills.
posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 5:26 PM on November 2, 2021 [2 favorites]

Peloton ugh. But I have been on flights that had some useful stretching reminder videos. Like the 15 hour LAX to Sydney flight.
posted by joeyh at 6:30 PM on November 2, 2021

We're all the sucker stuck in the middle seat.
posted by runehog at 6:53 PM on November 2, 2021 [3 favorites]

It's cute they think their video is capable of helping me fall asleep on a plane.
posted by augustimagination at 7:18 PM on November 2, 2021

This weekend we flew cross country to be with a dying relative and honestly I found the Peloton videos on the flight really helpful and comforting. I watched the breathing meditation ones. My only complaint is that they weren’t captioned.
posted by Tesseractive at 8:22 PM on November 2, 2021 [5 favorites]

If they really want me to relax, they should ban unvaccinated travelers over age 5 and permanently ban any passenger who lowers their mask one second longer than necessary to eat/drink.
posted by nanny's striped stocking at 3:02 AM on November 3, 2021 [4 favorites]

Peloton-blue-Filter
posted by rozcakj at 6:30 AM on November 3, 2021

"This is your captain speaking. Just a reminder, folks, keep pedaling as hard as you can or this bird is never going to make it to Pittsburgh."
posted by briank at 10:51 AM on November 3, 2021 [1 favorite]

I flew Delta on a recent business trip. I saw this option on the in-flight entertainment menu, but I couldn’t fathom “exercising”* without upsetting the man in the adjacent seat**.

*I knew it’d just be stretching or something

**His mask was below his nose the whole time (evidently to facilitate booger access in the absence of snack service), and the sweatpant-clad leg he kept manspreading into my space had what appeared to be blood spatters all over it. You just don’t want to ask some people any favors, you know?
posted by armeowda at 4:13 PM on November 3, 2021 [1 favorite]