The ad is very forgettable
Which one will you remember BA or Virgin ad ?

I was referring to the advert as it was mentioned earlier on here that the advert was playing on our image over the years including our safety record. Apparently the advert is the first in a series of 6...obviously all the pilots are salivating on here over this one as its a pilot/plane spotters wet dream! lets see you all gush when it s the about crew or catering (although that would be far too embarrassing to show our product)

Move on. Safety isn't just about what goes on in the cabin, although given that BASSA tells you that you are the only reason people fly BA I can see why you'd think that. Back to CrewForum for you, leave this place for the grown-ups.

Oh yeah...sorry...as appose to Balpa telling your lot that we are in a fight for survival and your pensions were at risk!! Anyway back to advert...aswell as using Virgin planes in the advert, BA should have also used Virgins advertising agency...as they always win hands down.

What very interesting posts are those of Get a grip._ They are full of panic._ A familiar panic._ Earlier this year there were many of these panic postings from Trolls._ That was when the realisation came that they, the Trolls, had become irrelevant.

So evidently there is something subtle in the BA advertisement, there is something which threatens the last Trolls, and this presumably is a successful future for BA that is determined by intelligent management.
A successfully managed business causes trouble-making Trolls to wither like chestnut trees in the Sahara.

I presume that the VC10 used was the one at Duxford? With the background computerised out more accurately than the VS registration at EGLL!

As to VS advertising (thread drift) I am not a complete fan of the one that was linked by triple x. The portrayal of cabin crew as doe-eyed models parading through the terminal is neither good nore helpful. Whereas, the ending of the item with the crew in the wing witha FABULOUS punch line? That is brilliant. It has the feel and delivery of the legendary 'No - Luton Airport' about it.

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might be better with "i dont like mondays" overplay

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Must be a Captain.

Not exactly top of the arithmetic class, are you ?

Was once told that Flt. Eng. had to do sums, co-pilots had to be able to write, and Captains had to know someone who could read.

Seems they were right.

And where were the Strat. and the Brit. and the 707 ? or are they coming in the series of 6 that have been threatened. ( weren't there Connies once, too ? )

YorkshireTykeYou are correct, it was a typographical errir. But, if I was a captain, I would no sum1 who culd count and spel. But the clue as to my role in the great airline world is in my PPRuNe name ... :p

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Anyway the BA ad is far better than the virgin one ,which was just an advert for the flight and cabin crew ,and we all know they dont look like that in real life .
The cabin crew person is correct in some way in that we dont have enough manpower to do the job correctly so the ADDs have increased and we still do have a number of engineers doing cabin crew jobs and all of us dont support them ,as far as i'm concerned they are traitors especially the union guys .
standards have dropped and thats a fact .and thats from an engineer on the line .

I doubt there's a regular of this forum (and even the irregulars:p) who would say other than that standards across BA have dropped. For myself, I guess that they have also dropped in engineering because I guess the mgmt won't allow the time (aka money) to do jobs in anything other than the minimum. I know that BA deny that and always have done and always will.

Even if there is a smoking hole [excluding the special case of BA 0038], they will deny it because they believe that they are all operating within the law and the regulations and the spirit of the regulations. But human nature says otherwise.

Once again for the record, I have never worked in the airline biz and am always happy to fly BA but I would not share a park bench with their mgmt or mgmt of BASSA.

Ahhh ?? but that might just be a soodinnim, to fool us into a sense of false security ?

Youz is rite YorkshireTyke. Uz keptins iz sich durn clevver peeps, we fro u off d cent. :p

Talking to a friend today, she asked me if I'd seen the 'wonderful new BA advert' I was slack jawed as she said how great it was. She agreed that using Conc was a bit cheeky but wasn't it great? I forgive her because she works in marketing ...! Unfortuntaely, for BA she doesn't travel long haul very much these days.

A very talented lady pilot. Another advert in the Fly to Serve series

Photograph Russell Crowe.

The advertising is eye-catching. I'm a BA banner waver - whether it would sway someone else, I cannot answer.

Thanks for posting the next advert L337 Am I nit picking to say that I wanted folks to be able to see her at work? I know what the flight deck of a 744 looks like and I have an inkling as to what they have to do but - it is important for others, particularly younger women and children to SEE this?

Is it enough to see her in a wet suit then walking through the terminal? I expect that we would see a really smart computer edit - so that she would fly from the kite to her aircraft? When she was saying how she is constantly aware of the changing environment around her - why did we not see her flying in difficult weather, or landing in snow or SOMETHING about flying?

Maybe it's just me.

notlangley told us: I say! Steady on, old boy; that's strong language - especially from you.

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Pretty sure it's Jack Davenport of This Life/Coupling/Pirates of the Caribbean fame.

Can I ask someone more into CGI than me ......

OK, so the agency (presumably someone from there who is now admiring their P45) took a Virgin 747 and adapted the livery to BA. But why on earth go to all that trouble ? When BA have such a range of 747s already painted in their colours available at Heathrow to base the image on, why ever take a different one and then take all the time and effort to re-colour it ?