View Full Version : New BA TV advert - About time!!!
Shadowpurser
2nd Nov 2002, 09:31
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.
flyingfrog
2nd Nov 2002, 12:12
Why use an American to advertise a (Great?) BRITISH Airline.
Are english actors too expensive nowadays?
eastern wiseguy
2nd Nov 2002, 14:37
ff or even a British actor??
Caslance
3rd Nov 2002, 06:11
Good point - what about Billy Connolly??;)
Fraudsquads
3rd Nov 2002, 16:27
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
Young Paul
3rd Nov 2002, 20:43
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!
boredcounter
4th Nov 2002, 18:34
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.
Carduelis
5th Nov 2002, 19:48
Yes, Boredcounter,
That Yank definitely looks like a quick lift from the earlier BA ad on 'Americans flying British' - saying the same phrase! Good!
fireflybob
6th Nov 2002, 14:37
Full marks to BA for a brilliant ad.
The people running out to the aircraft with "free seating" make me laugh hysterically every time I see the ad!
sclub99
6th Nov 2002, 16:06
I know the ad you mean now. First 6 times I saw it I assumed it was an American Airlines ad!
Jet II
7th Nov 2002, 06:47
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?
:confused:
no sponsor
7th Nov 2002, 09:42
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.
Jet II
7th Nov 2002, 14:35
BA now recruiting from Playboy - YES PLEEESE!!
OneWorld22
7th Nov 2002, 17:31
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.