With her raspy voice and the dirtiest potty mouth I’ve ever seen, Diva welcomed us onto the plane - but not before flirting with a few passengers by calling out our boarding groups. “ approached us and said, ‘I’m interested in being your flight hostess,’” Costa said. Olivia Harden/SFGATEĪ regular bartender at another bar in Palm Springs, Diva is also a drag performer whom Beatty and Costa met through friends. Hostess Diva gets us ready to board during the "In-Flight Experience" at PS Air Bar in Palm Springs. I then headed over to the “boarding lane” and was greeted by our hostess, also known as the flight attendant from hell, Diva. When my friend and I arrived, we were ushered to a “crew member” in traditional attire from the 1960s who checked us in and handed us bona fide paper tickets with our names on them. Is this what my parents used to have to do? The bar called me 48 hours before to get my food order so the servers would know what seat to bring it to. I’m a typical Gen Zer who dreads making phone calls to schedule appointments. I paid for the show in advance to secure my slot.
You can’t book online, and the events are so popular it took me a couple of tries calling and checking for available dates to find a show with tickets. For $69 per person, the bar promises “great music, fine food, classy cocktails (and) first-class service.” and includes live music provided by local duo Nouveau with Dez and Eddie. I went to PS Air Bar for the “In-Flight Experience” - a mock plane flight turned drunken party that happens every Saturday at 5 p.m. They gathered ancient seats, plane walls and discarded signs. The two eventually went to the Mojave Air and Space Port, about three hours from the bar, to visit an airplane graveyard, where old planes go to die. Beatty and Costa bought the wine shop from old friends in 2019.īouschet wine store in Palm Springs is home to an airplane-themed speakeasy, PS Air Bar. “Wouldn’t it be really cool if we put a bar together, a cocktail bar, and made it like the interior of a 737 plane? And it just kind of sparked an idea and … kept growing from there,” Costa told SFGATE. He and his partner Dennis Costa were chatting with a friend, who also worked at the airline, when inspiration struck.
It all started when Tommy Beatty was working for Continental Airlines about 15 years ago.
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