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treboryelk 26th Apr 2012 04:47

Posh Spice
 
Victoria Beckham on Cathay Pacific flight | Airline not amused

broadband circuit 26th Apr 2012 05:21

without wanting to sound too critical treboryelk,

1. This has been done to death on other threads.
2. Who cares about Posh Spice anyway? If you look at things objectively, she's a nobody has-been. The only reason she does things like this is to keep her name & picture in the press. If we just ignored her antics, she'd fade off into the background.

Let's just end this thread right now.

Cpt. Underpants 26th Apr 2012 05:28

"Posh" spice? Is that her name?

I always thought her name was "chlamydia" spice...

Tableview 26th Apr 2012 07:12

'a has been'?

A never-was more like.

broadband circuit 26th Apr 2012 08:46


'a has been'?

A never-was more like.
Dear Tableview,

I must offer you, and fellow PPRuNers, my sincerest unreserved apologies, and humbly concede that you are correct. Any previous implication on my part that she ever was something, or someone, was incorrect. Any suggestion that I made relating to such a matter was grossly misguided, and I wish to completely withdraw any previous statement(s) of that nature.

Please accept my acknowledgement of my previous poor judgement.

RedhillPhil 26th Apr 2012 08:58

And another thing...............no matter what she does to herslf she's still f**k ugly.

nitpicker330 26th Apr 2012 09:19

Yawn.....who gives a ......

So what if she sat on a CC Seat? Big bloody deal!!
Now if she sat on a Cockpit seat in flight pretending to make a PA then.......

Like I said, big deal.:sad:

Basil 26th Apr 2012 11:12


if she sat on a Cockpit seat in flight
Now, I do happen to know a B747 FE who would not have missed taking subsequent advantage of such an opportunity :E:}

Australians, eh? ;)

Fr8t M8te 26th Apr 2012 11:38

If ever there was a case for someone being forced to wear a burqa..........

:E

Liam Gallagher 26th Apr 2012 12:21

A reality check
 
Regardless of what you all may think of Mrs Beckham, the reality is she is a highly recognized figure. On t.witter she has 2.4m followers, Cathay Pacific has about 25,000. Again, regardless of what you may think of Range Rovers, an argument can be made it is a successful and recognized brand.

It would seem Mrs Beckham was traveling on Cx on a visit to China to promote Range Rover. She posed for the photo and posted it on her t.witter account. Mrs Beckham has a proven record of self-promotion and also a proven record of self-depreciation (which I think is evident from the photo). Again, regardless of what we all think, by any metric (apart from singing ability) she has been successful.

Applying all of the above, let's examine our employer's response. The company has expended money on a campaign along the lines of "staff make an airline". The company also expends money on monitoring and indeed manipulating social media such as t.witter, because they know social media is a very effectived means of advertising and opinion forming. Further, a competitor, Turkish Airlines, is currently running light hearted ads using high profile and highly expensive sports stars. In short, whether you like it or not, association with media personalities sell.

If Cathay had approached Mrs Beckham to pose for a light hearted promotional photo with a member of staff, the cost of such would have blown a small hole in the Advertising budget. A group of staff showed a bit of initiative and Mrs Beckham, at no cost to us, has promoted our airline on her t.witter account. Cathay's response, boll0ck the staff members!!

Talk about missed opportunities......... I think the Flight Attendants should spend some time in the Marketing/Press Department because they clearly have a better idea of how to promote the airline, and the muppets that publicly admonished the girls should spend some time down at the back galley learning how the world really works!!

Edited: because every time I type a word starting in T and ending in r and rhyming with "hitter", it comes out as Pprune ( birds like to twitter in the morning)See it did it again:confused:

Captain Dart 26th Apr 2012 21:57

Another one, 'Sporty' or 'Scary' I think, appears on low-budget Aussie TV channels peddling a weight loss program.

Not a pretty sight.

SMOC 27th Apr 2012 00:10


The company also expends money on monitoring and indeed manipulating social media such as t.witter, because they know social media is a very effectived means of advertising and opinion forming
I think you're giving CX way to much credit, they are so far behind in technology they simply don't know how to handle it.

The CX smart phone app is a perfect example, it's a copy and paste of their entire website. They have absolutely no idea on what the purpose of apps are designed for. Have a look at the Virgin app if you want see simple functionality.

Plus then they go and blow sunshine up their you know whats and tell themselves their app is the greatest one on the planet :ugh:

N1 Vibes 27th Apr 2012 05:46

People doing inappropriate things on a Cockpit Seat:


So what if she sat on a CC Seat? Big bloody deal!!
Now if she sat on a Cockpit seat in flight pretending to make a PA then.......
Not like CX have had women sitting on a Cockpit seat doing inappropriate things is it? Theres nothing like good/bad publicity eh......:\

Algol 28th Apr 2012 18:16

The Cathay iPhone App is cut and paste of the website? I think not!
It doesn't even have a Booking Engine (at least not on the version I downloaded). So whats the point of it?

'Posh' Spice - yeah, I've transported her before.
The biatch kept all of the rest of the pax waiting then swaggered on at the end with her entourage. Kept her sunnies on the whole trip and refused to converse with the cabin crew except through her interpreter.

I wanted to go without her but the grovelling b'stards in the company media dept refused to let me.

I did upgrade Blondie once. She was nice. Came up to the cockpit to say thanks afterward and invited the crew to her post-concert pissup.
Class.

Molokai 28th Apr 2012 18:39


This thread has now quietly spun into something about a sorry washed up ex spice girl in need of the idolatory of equally washed up flyboys.
Someone posted this comment on the Mongolian herp thread. Ouch!:oh:

Tommy Tilt 28th Apr 2012 20:18

As a cultured and sophisticated Australian, my only disappointment with the offending photo is that Victoria’s hand is placed in such a way that I cannot see her posh puss :p

Yeager 29th Apr 2012 15:21

It's just funny and stupid at the same time.. CX relations should just shut up instead of making af joke out of themselves as always.. How hard can it be? let it slide.. go get a great msg sandwich down on the street! :ok: :oh:

Koan 2nd May 2012 06:17

Was the Cabin Attendant terminated?

Evanelpus 2nd May 2012 15:17


The Hong Kong Standard newspaper reported that Beckham, wife of English football star David Beckham, had been criticised on Internet forums for putting the flight's safety at risk.
Who writes this crap? Must have been a reject from the Daily Mail!

I'm no lover of VB, a vacuous airhead if ever there was one but this all looks quite harmless and jokey.

cabbages 2nd May 2012 18:56

vacuous airheads
 
victoria beckhams' business interests have put her estimated net worth at £30million. just wondered how that vacuous airhead compares to you evanelpus?


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