Ajira - Some Assembly Required
Months of waiting, and finally Ajira Airways has become a fully fledged ARG site, with loads of new material about this mysterious company. First off there's an exotic promo video, with a weird image of a limo driver (pictured), holding the number 316 and some... Arabic?
Among their other stuff of interest is a crazily reasonable $87, which gets you a trip to a mystery location around the world where "time and space have no consequence". Another reference to what we've by now gathered is the Season 5 theme.
Another weird inclusion is in the site source code - a big thanks to 'The Immortal Dave' who pointed out that there's some hexidecimal code there, which translates to "For God so love the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." From John 3:16. Comment with your speculation about the meaning of that one. Didn't Eko's stick say John 3:16?
Also check out this page on the site, where there's a link to download an origami instruction pack to make a 3D ball. I remember that one from high school... But who is the uploader, Antonio B. MacCutcheon? Does he have a link to the whisky brand?
Next, check out this sample boarding card image from the site. Notice the DHARMA bagua style in the background, along with some familiar Swan hieroglyphs. Maybe the barcode numbers/letters also have some significance?
Lastly, the site mentions about its Sky Club membership - typical for most airlines, right? But what I found interesting was the mention "Redemption provides you a solo seat or a chance to charter your own personal plane. Your destiny awaits." Perhaps Ajira will be seen on the show, and Ben and the O6 will use this benefit to fly their own plane back to the island?? Bit out there...
Think that's everything you need to be caught up, do drop us comments on any further finds!
Update 1 - (Source: LostARGs): Most of the pages seem to have other messages in hex. They include:
- So off they started about Irish sport and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about Hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all of that. (From Ulysses by James Joyce... the writers said in a Dharma Special Access that it would be seen on the show).
- PINEAPPLES IN HAWAII
- SUPERSONIC IS COMMERCIAL THIRTY TILL MERIDIAN
- WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS.
Update 2 - Reports are suggesting that folding the sample boarding card using the origami instructions leads to the "GUM" letters on the card being seen inside the 3D ball. GUM indicates the Ajira flight location Guam. Also, if you use the numbers on the boarding card as latitude/longitude coordinates, you have 13 29.02'N and 144 47.50'E. Punch this one into Google Earth... and you're taken to Guam International Airport!!! Lost fans 1, TPTB 0.
17 comments:
the source code in "Flights" says
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." You mightve missed that one.
The numbers in the barcode and the airline use line point to the Guam airport (GUM) Will someone be from Guam?
Ajira is also Hindi for island. I also found a letter Ð it is of old-English or Icelandic org? not sure if it means anything... but Iceland again?
Mickey - right on. Seems like it's definitely Guam.
"WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS" is the motto of Guam.
The destinations are all places where people from the show are from. Tustin, CA was where the box company that Locke worked for (the one Hurley owned).
I wonder if the clues we are finding help you to figure out the exact ticket to purchase. We know we have Guam... And 316 seems to fit, so flight 316. We just need to know what day, and where from.
Did anyone notice that on the "Ajira Adventures" page under the Island Adventure it says : "Travel Tip: Teach your kids some origami to make the time fly by. Be sure to use your boarding pass... you never know what you might find hiding right inside. Click here for detailed folding instructions." When clicked it gives origami instructions I did it with the boarding pass and the first thing I see is the numbers 13 29 02N.
Also one of the destinations on the boarding pass is PEK which is the Beijing airport, but this is not a destination when picking a flight on the site. Mean anything?
Maybe the departing day is january, the 21st, "The skies have no limit with our new destinations beginning January 21st." and the returning day could be the 03/01/06.. some kind of time travelling.
just thinking..
I don't know the relevance, but in the watermarks on the boarding pass, there are the same hieroglyphics that were on the hatch timer.
Do you think Ajira Airlines has anything to do with the air strip that The Others were building on The Hydra island?
what about the $87, and the pineapple??? I think I have everything else figured out, but those two.
OK. I might have solved the "pineapple" hint...maybe it is a crossword clue. And if it is it could mean "Lanai" an island of central Hawaii, a pineapple growing area. It also references a living room, just like the site does.
Some one originally posted this info on a blog I read I am not sure who now.. "The natives of southern Brazil and Paraguay spread the pineapple throughout south America and it eventually reached the Caribbean. Columbus discovered it in the Indies and brought it back with him to Europe. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines, Hawaii (introduced in the early 19th century, first commercial plantation 1886), Zimbabwe and Guam."
nice, thanks...
I printed out the boarding pass, used my bar code scanner, and found our beloved numbers: 048151623426. Not sure what the "0" and "6" are for...?
i have just read on a forum the right way to enter the informations in there.
a one way
from LA, CA to Guam
departing 01/21/2009
select flight 316 11:30 am
adults: 10
children : 0
promotional code : 112114111109111
then click search flights !!!
nubrainer, 0 and 6 = Oceanic 6
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