Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
Probably the same type of guy sitting next to me today on my commute to work.
Unshaven, smelly, wearing a Jack Daniel's t-shirt with a wad of dip in his lip. He asked me insanely stupid pilot questions for 2 hours, stopping only to spit into a thermos.
I was riding Delta out of ATL.
Let's not generalize here KC10. Thanks to orbitz and the like, every airline carries America's garbage now, not just SWA. Talk to your management about raising fares to help better the caliber of your passengers and tell me how that goes.
FWIW, I see more sweatpants and bedroom shoes on the legacy carriers than the LCCs. These type of people are so "classy," that they demand a seat assignment.
Originally Posted by
OnTheKlacker
Umm, what type of passenger is that KC10 FATboy? (just curious)
Whoa whoa whoa ... hold the bus. You guys SERIOUSLY took my statement and injected your own thoughts there.
The type of passenger I was thinking of is one that would be energized by a cool diddy ... the young, the hip, likes to have a goodtime/enjoys life and freedom, the fashionably beautiful people. Ok, so I am joking with the last one.
It is a brilliant campaign. You see happy employees, happy about their jobs, happy that they aren't nickel and diming the customer. Not only do YOU have the freedom to move about the country, so do YOUR BAGS! It is an amazingly simple concept and the little diddies and raps are perfect for the targeted audiences and makes them feel good and helps you remember the point of the ad campaign.
If you think that this type of commercial plays to all audiences, you guys are smoking crack. This is why there are several variations of the same ad campaign and as such, I am almost positive that certain markets would only see some of those commercials, not all.
This reminds of a commercial Southwest used to have. It was the DING, you're free to move about the country line of commercials. I have tried finding the commercial on SWA's website and youtube, but they have since moved on. Anyhow, the commercial had a farmer in Kansas, he is on a tractor and he's cutting down corn. And as he goes a little further, theres a $59 sign in the cornfield floating there, or something to the effect.
That commercial was not for the farming community? Why? Because the farmer was cutting down corn. You don't cut down corn. You harvest it with a combine .. not cut it down with a tractor.
I guess its something that the city folk or ad executives didn't "think" about that when they designed the commercial -- or perhaps they did and wanted to confuse people, who knows. Because to them, the commercial was about freedom and the ability to go anywhere in the US for $59. The ad worked, but probably raised some eyebrows in the midwest.