On a bargain – Shane O’Neill in NYT:

‘For $995, Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for 45 minutes so that you can have sex.
Granted, you don’t have to have sex on the plane. You could pay $1,195 to get married on board. For $100 more, it can be booked for a romantic one-course meal; for $1,595, you’ll get three courses. With any package, an extra $300 will get you a bottle of bubbly and ride to the tarmac in a limousine.
But according to Andy Johnson, 40, a pilot and the founder of Love Cloud, its Mile High Club Flight, which comes with a commemorative membership card signed by the pilot, remains the business’s most popular offering.
“You come with a smile on your face, and you leave with a bigger smile on your face,” said Mr. Johnson, a fast-talking father who is from Virginia and lives in Summerlin, at the western edge of Las Vegas.’

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‘Those who buy the Mile High Club Flight will find a plane decked out with a twin mattress on the floor and several pillows, all ensconced in red satin. A curtain separates the passengers from the pilot, who wears noise-canceling headphones and remains in the cockpit for the duration of the flight. Yes, the plane and its bedding are cleaned after each trip.’

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‘Frelima Howard, 45, a party planner in Victorville, Calif., received the mile high flight as a “late wedding gift from” a friend in 2016.
“My husband and I had joined the mile high club before, so to be able to do it privately was great,” she said in a phone interview. “It was really nice and exclusive and private.”’

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‘According to court records, Mr. Johnson’s pilot’s license was temporarily suspended in 2009 by the Federal Aviation Administration after improper aircraft certifications related to Tidewater in 2007 and 2008. His license was revoked in 2011 for flying during his suspension.
In 2012, after a minor plane accident that occurred during his revocation, Mr. Johnson pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless operation of an aircraft and served 20 days in federal prison. He ended up filing for bankruptcy and moving back in with his parents.
“Talk about a blow,” Mr. Johnson said of that time. “We all make mistakes. That’s it, that’s life.” In 2014, he moved from his parents’ home in Virginia into a motel in North Las Vegas. “It was just kind of rebuilding your life and starting anew,” he said. “And that’s what Vegas has done for me.” Within a few months of arriving, he had gotten Love Cloud off the ground. “What better city to have a second chance than Vegas?” he said. Mr. Johnson hired other pilots to fly his planes for Love Cloud until he got his license reinstated in June of 2018. His business and airplanes are currently up to code.’

Read the article here.

This is a great and rather inexpensive way to save your relationship, think of the costs of couple therapy. I was intrigued by Frelina Howard’s comment: ‘My husband and I had joined the mile high club before, so to be able to do it privately was great.’

Meaning they had sex on 14a and 14b on a Delta flight from LA to NYC, while the fellow passengers were sleeping or watching a movie? If you have sex in a bathroom of a commercial flight and you lock the door, it’s private isn’t it?

I once or twice had sex in a bathroom of a train and once in a bathroom of a restaurant in Italy, but that’s as far as I’ve gone.