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Travelers aboard a series of American Airlines flights have recently been subjected to an odd series of sounds blaring over the aircraft’s PA system, as detailed by a recently viral video.

The video, recorded by Los Angeles based writer, actor and producer Emerson Collins, has received more than 2 million views thus far, something that Collins said he was forced to listen to for a portion of his flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Dallas for a writer’s festival.

“Someone on this flight seems to have broken into the intercom system,” Collins says in the video, as loud sounds best likened to groaning and grunting fill the cabin of the plane.

He noted that the sounds even began as passengers were still boarding the flight.

“At the beginning it sounded like maybe gastrointestinal distress,” Collins said. “Then like sort of moan-y, and then sort of vomit-y.”

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For years, Fort Lauderdale has been known as a hot spot for college spring breakers, family vacationers, conventioneers and cruise line passengers.

But now, so-called “bleisure” visitors — business travelers who extend their trips for a few extra days so they can take in local attractions — are making their presence felt as the COVID-19 pandemic fades and companies again underwrite the cost of sending employees out of town on business, downtown hoteliers say. Nationally, the trend has helped the industry recover from the devastating financial blows delivered by the coronavirus, according to a top industry official.

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“We have very specific companies and groups that come in,

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