The Angry Birds Asian Challenge was a competition held by Finnair, a Finnish airline. Contestants would submit an application explaining why they were the biggest Angry Birds fans. The top 8 winners won a ride on a customized Airbus A340 plane that was decorated with Angry Birds images.
History[]
The winners competed playing Angry Birds at an altitude of 10 kilometers (33,000 feet) on a flight from Helsinki to Singapore on September 20, 2011, on what was billed as the "longest ever flight of Angry Birds."
An animated video for the competition can be seen here.[1]
A web archive of the website for the competition can be seen here.[2]
Trivia[]
- Images of the modified plane and winners can be seen on the Finnair Facebook site here.[3]
- The competition is notable for creating two new images of Red in different flight-themed outfits.