Funky's Flights

Funky's Flights is a travel service operated by Funky Kong in Donkey Kong Country and DK Jungle Climber.

With one airport in every area on Donkey Kong Island, Funky's Flights is the only way for Donkey and Diddy Kong to travel between areas of the island without beating a boss. By dropping in at Funky's nearest hut, Funky will let the two Kongs ride around the island in his Jumbo Barrel, free of charge. However, the Jumbo Barrel is unable to travel to any areas that the Kongs haven't yet visited, thus preventing players from skipping levels. Rather, Funky's Flights merely serves as a bridge between the accessed areas of the island.

Note that in the remakes of Donkey Kong Country for Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, Funky instead runs Funky's Fishing, a minigame.

Funky reworked his business practice in time for Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Land 2, now offering flight service around Crocodile Isle in his new Funky Barrel. Funky's new service was dubbed Funky's Flights II, but with one catch: Funky would charge Diddy and Dixie Kong two Banana Coins for the first use of the Funky Barrel at every location, although any additional use would be free.

Funky's Flights also appears in Donkey Kong Country television series, where, besides being a flight shop, it's also a food shop. In the episode Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster, Funky wants to transform Funky's Flights into a restaurant.

In DK Jungle Climber, Funky runs his flight service once more. Here, DK and Diddy must collect a certain number of Oil Barrels to be able to use the Funky Barrel and fly to another island. The instruction booklet for DK Jungle Climber refers to Funky's flight service as "Funky Flights", rather than "Funky's Flights". The reasons for this small name change are unknown.

Appearances in Other Media
In the Donkey Kong Country animated series, Funky's Flights was located near the beach and docks of Kongo Bongo Island and had a complex system built into that could raise the entire hut into the air and suspend it there. On the show, Funky's Flights, as well as offering plane rides to people, made deliveries for Bluster's Barrel Works as well. The inside of Funky's Flights was also shown on occasion on the show and was filled with surfer memorabilia, as one would expect a place owned by Funky Kong to have, along with other objects like a couch, refrigerator and paintings.

Trivia

 * Funky's Flight theme in Donkey Kong Country was originally composed for another Rare game, Killer Instinct.