Air New Zealand Offers Matchmaking Flight

If you haven’t found true love with Match.com or eHarmony, maybe you just need to get out of town for a weekend and see if you can find true love away from home.  And I mean REALLY away from home.

Air New Zealand is offering a singles-only Matchmaking Flight that will depart from Los Angeles (LAX) to Auckland, New Zealand on October 13th, and hopes that a little matchmaking at 30,000 feet will help you find true love at last.

The weekend starts off with a pre-departure party at the gate (think tailgating, only with an airplane), with food, drink, and ice breaking games.  Then, before you know it, you’ll be en route to Auckland, with a hundred or so of your newest best friends.  Once in Auckland, you’ll be invited to attend a Matchmaking Ball at the SkyTower.

Air New Zealand is also hoping  passengers will want to get to know one another before the big take off, so they’re putting together some social media options that will allow ticketholders to upload a personal profile and start chatting with each other.

Love isn’t cheap, but the package is fairly reasonably priced.   Round trip air starts at $780 per person (plus the dreaded taxes and fees), and packages that include airfare start at around $1,109.

Who knows?  Your seatmate on the flight might just become your seatmate for life!

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