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Seats on ABC's 'Lost' Flight Up for Sale

Source: AOL Travel

Posted: 02/05/10 11:06AM

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Try to book the same flight path the characters on Lost took when their plane crashed, and you'll find yourself with the option to hop onboard Oceanic Flight 815.

The virtual Easter egg, or hidden joke, can be found on travel site Kayak. When booking travel from Sydney's SYD airport to Los Angeles's LAX on September 22, 2010, a fictional fare for the flight will appear as one of your options.

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Try to book the same flight path the characters on Lost took when their plane crashed on Kayak, and you'll find yourself with the option to hop onboard Oceanic Flight 815.

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To make sure customers know the flight is fake, Kayak has upped the price of the Lost flight to four times the price of other flights on the same route. Although some would probably pay $4,839 to be stuck on a tropical island with a shirtless Matthew Fox, the price plus $23.42 in taxes and fees is actually part of a running sequence of numbers on Lost: 4-8-15-16-23-42. For those unfamiliar with the show, Kayak redirects customers who might actually try to book the flight to a Lost wiki entry on Lostpedia to make sure they know it's a hoax.

Once travelers read "Under mysterious circumstances, on September 22, 2004, the airliner, carrying 324 passengers, deviated from its original course and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean," they'll be sure to book a different option.

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