The segment where the trainee flight attendants at Royalty Airways are undergoing training by John Witney (Mike Myers) included a lesson on how to deal with terrorists. The scene was cut from the film, and was not included on the DVD release as a deleted scene.
In 2019, British actor/writer/director Richard Ayoade found "View from the Top" so appallingly awful in every way that he wrote a book dedicated to the film, "Ayoade on Top." He stated that he wanted to analyze the film as if it were Citizen Kane (1941).
This film wrapped filming in 2001, and was originally scheduled for a Christmas 2001 release, then after initial tests, an April 2002 release. However, after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. of September 11, 2001, the studio felt it was not appropriate to release a comedy which made light of airline flight crews. After another year in the can, and another round of edits which cut out cameo appearances by Robert Stack and Regis Philbin, the film was finally released in summer 2003. It promptly flopped and disappeared.
The character of John Whitney, played by Mike Myers, was cross-eyed. His office features photos of prominent real life figures with eye afflictions:
- Sammy Davis Jr. (who lost left eye in a car accident)
- Marty Feldman (had Graves' ophthalmopathy, causing his eyes to protrude and become misaligned)
- Peter Falk (His right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma, he wore an artificial eye for most of his life)
In an interview Gwyneth Paltrow admitted that she thought this was a terrible movie. This interview can be seen as a bonus feature on the DVD release of Thanks for Sharing (2012).
George Kennedy: The veteran of the Airport film franchise is the man in first class who declines Donna's offer of Champagne and caviar.