Businessweek Cover Shows Planes Having Sex (PHOTO)

We've all heard of the "mile high club," but this is really pushing it.

The latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek depicts two planes getting hot and heavy in the clouds to represent the upcoming merger of United and Continental Airlines.

Josh Tyrangiel, the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, explained the inspiration for the magazine cover in a Tweet:

@Tyrangiel
Josh

This week's @BW cover—our tribute to Marvin Gaye, Airplane, and vintage Economist. http://t.co/ZJSfhgct

February 2, 2012 2:33 pm via web Reply Retweet Favorite

Last year, United Airlines and Continental Airlines announced a $3 billion merger that would create the world's biggest airline. Since then, the two companies have been working tirelessly to iron out thousands of details of the merger, from what foods the new airline will serve to how employees should load dogs onto planes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The full feature story is expected to be published on Bloomberg Businessweek's website at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, according to Business Insider.

Check out the full cover image below.

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Comments

[liarfire]

12:10 PM on 03/01/2013

corporate depravity knows no bounds...
Its the culture of sociopaths and they have normalized it into society..
this is why they have NO sense of integrity or even the most modest sense of decency left not to mention classlessness. But thats the corporate world today for you...salivating money weeeeeasels

[Marcin A Mazurek]

10:24 PM on 02/28/2013

I think its' only Plane sex if you say it's plane sex.
My First thought was that they were transporting the other airplane, like, supporting it.

[Chris Floyd]

03:20 PM on 02/09/2012

I've noticed the dumbing down of Businessweek lately but it seems to that their goal is to stoop even lower than expectations.

[OLEGAR]

09:04 AM on 02/05/2012

"Business Week"? ? What a joke. American Airlines giving out 13000 pink slips and the demise of what is almost America's only flag carrier doesn't rate a "Cover" What a joke. Of course the demise of yet another thriving business caused by the inept management - - who by the way have the "Golden Parachutes - - is old news to the publishers. What do the "fired" employees think?

[GaryNOVA]

01:42 AM on 02/05/2012

So that's where airplanes come from. And to think all those years my parents lied to me and made me think they came from Boeing.

[kilakhan]

06:30 PM on 02/04/2012

whoever thought of that advert needs a new job

[OLEGAR]

09:17 AM on 02/05/2012

And where are the rightwing "Morals Police" hanging out ? ? Oh - licking up to mitten who "won" nevada's phony caucuses

[signgrrl]

11:25 AM on 02/05/2012

ditto whoever approved it.

[pryapuss]

05:17 PM on 02/04/2012

wondering about those triangles in the sky?.....There jets riding doggie style...bow chicka bow wow

[pryapuss]

05:13 PM on 02/04/2012

If your wondering about those triangles in the sky ....There jets riding doggie style

[moody31]

05:04 PM on 02/04/2012

Sorry, I'm not really into gay airplane sex.

[GaryNOVA]

01:39 AM on 02/05/2012

just out of curiosity, why is it automatically gay to you?

[moody31]

04:46 AM on 02/05/2012

Two airplanes that look the same having sex? Really guy/girl?

[Altario]

02:59 PM on 02/04/2012

And 9 months later, a beautiful little Piper Cub was born. That concludes our course on Where do Baby Planes Come From?

[signgrrl]

11:45 AM on 02/05/2012

i thought they came from Vero Beach !

[Hareega]

12:46 PM on 02/04/2012

A more realistic ad would be having both airlines there but with an economy-seat passenger on bottom

[sensimilla]

12:09 PM on 02/04/2012

one of the dumbest covers i have ever seen. What were they thinking??

[WindySailor]

09:47 AM on 02/04/2012

Airplanes doing it doggy style, eh? Bloomberg must have hired an artist from Hustler.

[sameasoldboss]

02:13 AM on 02/04/2012

The ruling class needs to distract its population with drugs, entertainment, and sex. Mexico is doing it to great effect. Everyone can learn from America!

[Christopher Trono]

10:26 PM on 02/03/2012

This cover depicts the Continental plane on top screwing the United plane. However, from someone who is living the "merger dream" as an employee of one of the companies involved, it should be the United plane screwing the Continental aircraft.

[OLEGAR]

09:11 AM on 02/05/2012

I was one of the TWA employees who got shafted in the trashing of this great old airline,
by Carl Ichan and then later by American Airlines. AAL, who bought the remains of a once great Airline, wrecked by the upper management - then bankrupted, was then used as a pawn by American to bolster their failing management practices. Now the vultures have gathered.