, but there was one rather discordant note. On both flights the FA's were relentlessly touting NK's new co-branded credit card. Each announcement was several minutes long, and when FA's came down the aisle with applications they actually spoke to each passenger, asking if they wanted applications. I've experienced on-board credit card offers before, on different airlines, but this one had a certain degree of ... urgency, I guess that's the best word, that was unprecedented. On an even stranger note, uniformed NK employees in the FLL concourse were going up to people as they passed by, touting the credit card.
This was nothing like the more or less mechanical way that a cashier at, say, Target asks you if you want to open an account. Having worked in life insurance sales - NEVER again! - I got the distinct impression that the NK people weren't merely following management's order to promote the card, but were under pressure to meet quotas. Is such a thing even possible in the airline industry?
