Originally Posted by
piperboy84
You have to wonder why now? This had all died a death and mostly been forgotten. Boeing, the hedgefunders and the rent-a-royals had all moved on, this forum had been locked down tight, the
PR guy Kelly was onto new projects and Tracey was back at her local airshow circuit fly-in gigs. Then out of the blue there's rumblings of action stirring on the matter at the LAA concurrent with some IT guy falling on his sword by throwing out a mea culpa we are all familiar with from the BIAP back office and associated sycophants. Whats up?
Promoting the new lucrative film, that's what's up. Self promotion, which is nothing new from them.
Sounds like
PR team have suggested that it is all too quiet prior to the big announcement and may have suggested the challenge to LAA as away of generating publicity. I am sure they believed that the LAA old-duffers' society would just roll over and reinstate the award. This would have been a massive coup for BiaB and the press releases (probably already drafted) would have hit the headlines.
Only problem with their plan was that we all remember the lies that led to this action being taken and that if other organisations had had the spine they too would have pulled awards/rewards back in 2016. Seems to me the plan is backfiring massively, yes it is getting some media attention, but not the best kind by any means.