We need some lighter discussions around here....

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.

Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros (370 pounds).

"It's expensive, I know," managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's because the plane's very small. There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."

The 55 passengers will have to remain clothed until they board, and dress before disembarking, said Hess. The crew will remain clothed throughout the flight for safety reasons.

"I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer," Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's an unusual gap in the market."

Naturism, or "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis but blossomed again after the Second World War, particularly in eastern Germany.

"There are FKK hotels where you can go into the restaurants and shops naked, for example," Hess said. "For FKK fans -- not that I'm one of them -- it's nothing unusual."

"I don't want people to get the wrong idea. It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air or something like that," he added. "We're a perfectly normal holiday company."

(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan, editing by Paul Casciato)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_nudism_flight;_ylt=AoCIK1uRQoaZuz_ne6u9mqftiBIF

I certainly would not want an aisle seat - there has been many a time when someone walking through the aisle has had to lean into you while letting a stewardess past!!!

Not sure I would want to sit on a seat that a naked stranger was sitting on before me....oh no..my OCD is showing!!

interesting life opinion,i bet they have some true reasons for theirself,btw thats safer to be with dress,so any other flight?

We have a nudist beach near my home and, while I do NOT make a habit of watching them (!!!), I have often wondered why it is that men and women with the MOST out of condition, untoned, fat, blotchy, wrinkley bodies are the ones who are attracted to naturism!

Eewwwwwwww

+10000000 to all you're saying.
All I can include is - how disgusting to sit in a seat where a nude person has sat before. Mikrooooop!

I have no problem with that..
My hair will be covering me..
A seat for me please!!

People are becoming crazier by the minute, how sick... How is this sanitary? Heck, Delta doesn't even supply pillows anymore, due to hygiene. I wonder do they hose off the seats each flight...

Ewwwww this is repulsive! This image better not pop into my head when I enter an airplane in two weeks :banghead: One could get a phobia from this.

At least it's pretty safe to say the person who came up with this idea will go bankrupt soon

LMAO!!!

The way the forums have been going lately, I am just surprised no one has brought up not being able to wear a headscarf yet!

I am off to find more bizarre headlines....