Forget the tiny bag of pretzels. The best in-flight entertainment of the year just happened at 30,000 feet — and it was a full-blown emo reunion.

Hoobastank, Simple Plan and The Used turned a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Orlando into a surprise acoustic concert on Friday, each band playing short sets right there in the aisle as passengers filmed, sang along and lost their minds.

Frontman Doug Robb led Hoobastank through their 2004 smash “The Reason.” Simple Plan answered with “Perfect” and “I’m Just a Kid.” The Used closed the cabin set with “The Taste of Ink.” Cabin lights dropped, arms went up, and for a few minutes a packed plane felt like the front row of a Warped Tour stage.

“Now that’s what I call in-flight entertainment,” one passenger, Jordan Orion, wrote on a clip shared online. Another traveler, Tori Kravitz, called the moment a childhood dream come true.

The flight was part of Southwest’s Live at 35 series, which books surprise performances at cruising altitude — and the festival bills the partnership as a first-of-its-kind Warped Tour experience in the air. Southwest is the Preferred Airline Partner of Vans Warped Tour. Singer LØLØ, who flew with the group and performed, captioned one clip: “Every plane was grounded today, but the emo gods made sure this one flew.”

That last line is no exaggeration: the jet was among the last to leave Los Angeles before a nationwide FAA ground stop took hold that day.

All three bands play the Vans Warped Tour Orlando finale at the Camping World Stadium campus — Hoobastank and Simple Plan take the stage Saturday, Nov. 14, and The Used performs Sunday, Nov. 15. It’s Hoobastank’s first-ever appearance at the event.

Toledo angle: if you grew up on these bands — and if your Warped Tour memories involve a parking lot in Ohio, a sunburn and a setlist you still know by heart — this is your nostalgia trip, served at cruising altitude. The millennial emo canon just got its most ridiculous encore yet.

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Source: Daily Caller