Can you imagine travelling on a plane with flight attendants wearing sneakers and serving you natural smoothies while you make the most of their streaming service and get stuck into a Game of Thrones marathon? Well, it’s no dream. Say hello to the new Air France airline, Joon.
“Joon is a fashion brand. It’s also a rooftop bar, a personal assistant, an entertainment channel—and, oh yeah, it’s also an airline!”. This first statement is more than obvious when you look at the chic, sporty, and sustainable, eye-catching blue uniforms made from 60% recycled material.
The “rooftop bar” makes sense if we look at the range of free drinks on offer – water, orange juice, Segafredo organic coffee, and tea, and if you pay, organic French wines, or a refreshing La Parisienne craft beer are also available. We also have to remember that 20% of the food on the menu comes directly from organic farming.
The airline’s determined to enter the 21st century with a bang. It’s also teamed up with TravelCar, a company that lets you park near airports with savings of up to 70% and allows you to rent your car to others while you’re away travelling, Airbnb Experiences, with its catalogue of unique experiences and accommodation, and Le BHV Marais, who will help you discover the hidden side of Paris.
YOUR BATTERY’S NEVER OUT OF JUICE
Every seat on Joon flights has a USB port to charge your devices, so you don’t have to worry about battery time during the entire flight as you have the company’s app, YouJoon, which gives you access to free Wi-Fi and a range of streaming content. Fargo, Rick and Morty, videos from RedBullTV and ViceLand, they’re all there, and it’s even got the Disney Junior channels to keep the younger ones entertained. Intercontinental flights will also have screens built into the seats for passengers to enjoy the feature-length movies on offer.
And the question that remains to be answered, where does it fly to? For the time being, the only Spanish route is Barcelona – Paris. However, once you’re in the French capital you can catch connecting flights to Porto, Berlin, and Lisbon, starting at €39, and the airline hopes to open up flights to Rome, Naples, Oslo, and Istanbul in March, and long-haul flights are set to begin this spring to Fortaleza (Brazil), Mahé (Seychelles Islands), Cairo, Tehran, and Cape Town.
