Susan Berry got on a 10am Ryanair flight expecting to sleep.
She got a nightclub at 30,000ft instead.
The 38-year-old freelance photographer, from Miami Beach, was flying to Ibiza ahead of a shoot on the island.
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She wanted a quiet journey. What she got involved two competing speakers, several bottles of spirits and a fellow passenger removing her trousers mid-flight.
The music was the first clue
At first Susan assumed someone was being inconsiderate with their phone.
“When I first heard the music, I thought, ‘Who the hell is playing music on their phone? That’s so rude,'” she told CreatorZine.
“Then I realised there were actually two different sets of music playing.”
It wasn’t phones. “One speaker was literally dangling from the roof, and another girl had a bottle of champagne and a speaker in her lap,” she said.
Tequila and vodka were doing the rounds. People were singing.
“At that point I realised I was the outcast and needed to lighten up and have some fun.”
Then it escalated
The turning point came from the woman in the seat ahead.
“The woman ahead of me spilled her drink all over her trousers, so she just took them off and sat there in a thong,” Susan said.
“I was in absolute shock that this woman was basically nude on a flight. And I loved her for that.”
A British passenger next to her went on the same journey.
“At first I was like, ‘What the f*** is going on?'” she said.
“Then by the end of it, I was dancing in the aisle.”
The crew had seen worse
Susan asked the cabin crew whether any of this was normal. It was.
“The flight attendants seemed to be enjoying themselves,” she said.
“I asked, ‘Is this normal?’ and they said, ‘Yeah, usually everyone’s standing.’ They actually told me this was one of the calmer flights.”
For all the chaos, the seatbelt sign still worked. Passengers sat down every time it came on.
Susan says she’d do the whole thing again, only properly prepared next time.
“I’d bring my girlfriends, more booze from duty free and turn it into a proper pre-party.”
Why It Matters
The footage has passed 95,000 views, with 1,600-plus likes and a comment section doing most of the marketing.
This is the creator economy’s favourite kind of content: nobody staged it, nobody planned it, and it costs nothing to shoot.
A phone, a strange situation and the instinct to film it.
The people who reliably go viral now aren’t the ones chasing production value.
They’re the ones who happen to be recording when a woman in a thong starts a singalong over the Mediterranean.
Ibiza-route flights have become their own genre online, half travel content and half warning label, and airlines have said very little about any of it.
The comments knew exactly what they were watching.
“Knew before even looking it was an Ibiza flight,” one wrote.
Susan’s flight home is, presumably, still to come.
