Cptkrell From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2606 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3447 times:
If easyJet were a USA airline, every feminist group in the country would be organizing a protest boycott. The whackos even protested the Hooters name here as a bar/restaraunt not too long ago. Remember the "Coffee, tea or me?" and "Fly me" campaigns that were withdrawn?
My only complaint is that the ad would look better in color...Jack
Lindy field From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 3073 posts, RR: 15 Reply 6, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3439 times:
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Who's Dick Hertz? :P I think the ad would look better without that bikini in the way.
DoorsToManual From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3434 times:
well, who knows, we do have an Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) which monitors these things - the truth behind adverts especially, but also probably the "appropriateness" of such adverts.
I don't have a problem with this advert, but a pair of breasts is not going to make me rush on to easyjet.com to avail of their "low fares" (which are not, er, that 'easy' to find...)
CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 28 Reply 8, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 3158 times:
Lowest fares to the sun, eh? Judging by the picture, those boobs need to hop on an easyjet flight and get some sun. Too damn pale!
AvObserver From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 2430 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 3130 times:
Now I know why flying can be a TITillating experience!
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16896 posts, RR: 51 Reply 13, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 3059 times:
Once again, the old maxim about "Sex Sells" holds true. I do like the play on words with the "Weapons of Mass Distraction", since the other WMD phrase has been seared into our brains like those damn Old Navy ads.
727LOVER From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5770 posts, RR: 20 Reply 14, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 3049 times:
AA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 15, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 3042 times:
Why is there a picture of my chest on this site?
Signed,
KROC
Cptkrell From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2606 posts, RR: 13 Reply 16, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3020 times:
727Lover wrote that the "Fly Me" advertising campaign wasn't withdrawn because of protests; it just ran its' course. I'm GLAD I mispoke...I remember the feminists protesting NAL and the ad agency (but that was a quarter of a century ago) and am happy they didn't prevail.
F. William Free, the ad exec who created the campaign for National, just passed away in January...Jack
MxCtrlr From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 2485 posts, RR: 39 Reply 17, posted (10 years 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2992 times:
That National "Fly Me" campaign was, without a doubt, one of the most successful campaigns in the airline industry. The campaign was launched immediately after the 1969 wildcat walkout strike of the machinist's union (or "fiasco", as it was better known to the folks at NAL). NAL had been shut down for 18 months due to that strike, and needed some good publicity campaign desparately so! Sex sells and "Fly Me" was borne. They even dedicated one of the DC-10 "Geraldine" and had Flip Wilson (who's "Geraldine" character in the early 1970's, was the impetus for the name) dedicate that aircraft!
If memory serves correctly, Fly Me ran in the US and Europe (at least in those cities that NAL served) for about 1 year or so and then NAL moved onto the "We're Shining Brighter" campaign. The Fly Me campaign was parodied in just about every medium of the day, on both sides of the pone, including a Benny Hill skit! I'd say that made it a pretty successful campaign!
As far as the protestors went (and go), ever notice that most of the women protesting anything sexual towards women, are women you wouldn't f**k with a borrowed co*k? Just like most nudists are people you do even want to see with their clothes ON, much less nude!
MxCtrlr
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DAMN! This SUCKS! I just had to go to the next higher age bracket in my profile! :-(
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