New BA TV advert - About time!!!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Pub
Posts: 204
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
New BA TV advert - About time!!!
Just seen new BA TV advert that takes a swipe at low cost airlines.
All I can say is - IT'S ABOUT BLOODLY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Low costs have been slating us openly for years and we have sat back and kept quiet and done nothing while us the staff have cried out and put in countless suggestions in that we fight back and play them at their own game. Well now it's happened, and I gotta say the results are great!! Very funny, subtle, and tounge in cheek.
The Yank in it - P.J. O'Rourke if I'm not wrong - is good as well!!
Keep it up BA!!! It's about time we stood our ground and advertised our assets and benefits.
All I can say is - IT'S ABOUT BLOODLY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Low costs have been slating us openly for years and we have sat back and kept quiet and done nothing while us the staff have cried out and put in countless suggestions in that we fight back and play them at their own game. Well now it's happened, and I gotta say the results are great!! Very funny, subtle, and tounge in cheek.
The Yank in it - P.J. O'Rourke if I'm not wrong - is good as well!!
Keep it up BA!!! It's about time we stood our ground and advertised our assets and benefits.
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: SW, UK
Posts: 71
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I'd just like to add my support to BA for a great ad.
Using an American actor I think trys to demonstrate that even American's like BA even when they have plenty of US carriers to choose from.
Keep up the good work.
FS
Using an American actor I think trys to demonstrate that even American's like BA even when they have plenty of US carriers to choose from.
Keep up the good work.
FS
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Inside the M25
Posts: 2,404
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I wouldn't buy anything Billy Connolly is selling, since he started trying to get suckers to part with pounds for lottery tickets.
"Don't live a little, live a lotto." Oh, please!
"Don't live a little, live a lotto." Oh, please!
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: East Midlands
Posts: 723
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
That Yank
Pardon my lack of memory.
Is he the chap, who BA used some time ago, when the ad angle was along the lines of, why so many Americans fly BA. Just curious.
Bored.
PS. 'Bout time the BA gloves came off, in a legit way, my job depends on it! GREAT ad.
Is he the chap, who BA used some time ago, when the ad angle was along the lines of, why so many Americans fly BA. Just curious.
Bored.
PS. 'Bout time the BA gloves came off, in a legit way, my job depends on it! GREAT ad.
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: West Country
Posts: 1,271
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Saw the ad for the first time last night - thought it was very clever, however the bit with the guy standing alone at the check-in desk was a bit OTT - Remember BA is the company that cut back on check-in staff so much at LGW that punters were queing outside the terminal in the rain!
More advertising lies?
More advertising lies?
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: UK
Posts: 1,091
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The chap in the advert is P.J. O'Rourke, a humourist and writer. He wrote 'CEO of the Sofa', 'Eat the Rich', 'Give War a Chance', 'Holidays from Hell' and 'Parliament of Whores', in which he quotes "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys". He has a most definite dislike of any governmental figure in the US.
He reguarly writes for a number of magazines, including Playboy, which of course someone told me.
An interesting individual to front your airline.
He reguarly writes for a number of magazines, including Playboy, which of course someone told me.
An interesting individual to front your airline.
Jolly Green Giant
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 586
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
O'Rouke is actually an arch-Republican, it's the Democrats he despises.
Great ad, very well done and something the full service carriers should be doing more of.
Great ad, very well done and something the full service carriers should be doing more of.
