This Surreal British Airline Commercial Takes You on a Wild Trip Indeed

easyJet ad is stuff of in-flight daydreams

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Travel has become more accessible for Londoners, thanks to easyJet, whose latest "Why Not?" campaign by VCCP has a pretty basic premise: It's the story of the many adventures awaiting a woman whose flight is about to take off. 

Strange little details give the ad unexpected vivacity. It opens with a molting man made of flowers running across the runway like Alice's White Rabbit. He's late, he's late! Suddenly our heroine is yanked right out of the plane and into the hangar, where tropes of a European vacation—open-air markets, street artists—are given the Gulliver's Travels treatment, transforming the exotic into the surreal. 

In one scene, the protagonist even appears relaxing on a beach, surrounded by a spray of tiny humans. 

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