Virgin America Airlines and CW Team for ‘Fly Girls’ Reality Show

Virgin America Airlines has joined forces with CW for a brand-new reality show that will go into production soon, with a premiere date set tentatively for 2010. The new televised series will take viewers many miles up and then to various exotic locations as they “tag along” female flight attendants, learning what makes their lives so interesting, The Wrap informs.

However, since no reality series is all about work and no play, “Fly Girls” will also show the five protagonists on their breaks from work, as they feel the night pulse of every city they travel to, a statement from CW says. In this sense, the upcoming project will represent a combination of a dating reality show with a documentary, and will aim to present life of flight attendants such as it is.

“The CW is joining the mile high (reality) club, greenlighting production on a half-hour docusoap about flight attendants who work for uberhip upstart Virgin America. Dubbed ‘Fly Girls,’ the series will have shades of MTV’s ‘The Hills.’ It will follow five Virgin flight attendants as they jet set to locales such as Las Vegas, New York and South Beach in search of ‘good times, great parties, adventure and love,’ the CW said. Eight episodes of the series, from executive producers Jeff Collins (‘Bridezilla 5’) and Colin Nash (‘The Hills’), have been ordered. It’s expected to premiere early in 2010.” The Wrap says.

“This show is about real, down-to-earth young women who happen to have landed in an exceptionally glamorous, high-flying career filled with exotic locations and handsome strangers. We’re thrilled to be working with Virgin America for this unique peek into a whirlwind lifestyle that shows how tough it is to be grounded when you work 35,000 feet in the air.” Kristen Vadas, head of alternative programming for CW, says in a statement.

Although the girls on the show will all be Virgin America employees, “Fly Girls” will not be a “pure branded entertainment project,” it is being added. The company does not control the production on the show, although it will presumably contribute heavily to promoting it.