As for the SI livery - it was all part of a cross-promotion with Sports Illustrated, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, and Southwest Airlines. The aircraft was parked at New York's LaGuardia airport at the same time the Times Square billboard announcing this year's cover model, Bar Refaeli, was unveiled by David Letterman. Southwest plans to start service to LGA later this year. One if it's destinations will almost surely be Las Vegas.
I really don't get the puritanical attitudes that still prevail in this country. We criticize Middle Eastern cultures for making their women wear veils and burqas but put a woman's image on a plane in a bikini and the same people go berzerk. Unbelievable!
Of course they always say "the kids shouldn't see this." I guess you never take your kids to a beach or pool. In Europe families go to topless and nude beaches all the time. Is Europe full of damaged people because they saw breasts on a beach when they were kids? Come on America - pull your heads out of your collective *****. There are much bigger issues at hand than the SI swimsuit model on a Southwest Airlines plane. Your kids' eyes aren't gonna melt if they look at it and they're not going to be emotionally scarred for life. You parents do a much better job screwing up your own kids than all the media exposure and video games ever could.
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