Chris Thile Volunteers To Serve As American Airlines Music Consultant

Mandolinist Chris Thile travels extensively as a member of Punch Brothers. In fact, according to Thile himself, he travels so much that he’s achieved Executive Platinum frequent flier status with American Airlines. Thile apparently isn’t a fan of the in-flight music options on American and has made the airline quite a generous offer.

Chris took to his Twitter feed to offer himself up as music consultant on a pro bono basis:

Dear @AmericanAir, as a concerned ExecPlat member and professional musician, I hereby offer my services as a music consultant, ON THE HOUSE.

— Chris Thile (@christhile) October 7, 2013

The airline quickly responded that it was open to suggestions:

@christhile Thanks, Chris. We welcome any suggestions!

— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) October 7, 2013

Thile had one suggestion immediately come to mind:

“@AmericanAir: @christhile Thanks, Chris. We welcome any suggestions!” #1: Eliminate all spa-style solo piano renderings of today’s hits…

— Chris Thile (@christhile) October 7, 2013

Chris Thile and the American Airlines’ representative exchanged a few further tweets including this one from AA that we hope will lead to the airline taking up Thile on his offer:

@christhile We appreciate your insight. We’ll collect your tweets and forward them to the appropriate folks.

— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) October 7, 2013