No wonder people get the travel bug.
Flings, mile-high club fantasies and flirting with flight attendants are common on Australian holidays, according to an eye-opening survey by online travel company ZUJI.com.au.
If the national survey of more than 1,000 people in August is to be believed, 45 per cent of men and women have enjoyed some extra “R’n'R” by having a holiday fling after reaching their destination.
Some – but not many – men start their holiday fun early by filling out their mile-high club membership form.
Just seven per cent of men surveyed have joined the exclusive club while women were more coy when asked, with no mile-high percentage registered. But that percentage may rise substantially in next year’s survey, judging by the 2006 poll, which claimed 48 per cent of men and 26 per cent of women fantasised about joining the mile-high club.
Flight attendants don’t miss out on the fun either.
Forty-three per cent of men but just 14 per cent of women admitted they flirted with flight attendants. “Flight attendants are generally female and maybe that has got to do with it,” laughed ZUJI.com.au Australian general manager Peter Smith.
“But I don’t know if women are flirting with the women or the men – draw your own conclusions.”
Judging by the survey results, NSW should be renamed the lucky state.
Forty-nine per cent of NSW men and women have enjoyed a holiday fling – four per cent higher than the national average.
Arguably the more impressive statistic belongs to Queensland – 13 per cent of its men claim to be mile-high club members, almost doubling the national average. “I know where I will be moving when I retire,” Mr Smith said.
For ACT men, the survey doesn’t make pretty reading.
Eleven per cent of ACT men have “tried but failed” to have a holiday fling, well above the national average of four per cent. Curiously, the survey said 33 per cent of ACT men take two or fewer pairs of underpants on a one week holiday – the national average is 10 per cent.
“I think it shows the ACT guys are going to have to pick up their personal hygiene – or maybe they were all politicians,” Mr Smith joked.
“And I don’t know what is going on with Tasmania’s women.” He was referring to 80 per cent of Tasmanian women admitting they have not had a holiday fling – the national average is 52 per cent.
None of the Tasmanian women surveyed said they had flirted with a flight attendant.
Source: Ninemsn
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