Lately we have seen some really motivational advertising from Delta, some classy stuff paying homage to the employees of this great airline.

Perhaps I am seeing this for the first time, but British Airways has put out what has to be the coolest damn ad for flying airplanes I have seen in God knows how long.

You can find it on You Tube. Search for British Airways. To Fly. To Serve.

Now folks, I am a talented discounter of the feel good fluffy stuff marketing firms can put out about airlines. I know airlines have huge budgets and these ad firms have some really smart people...but I'm relenting to their voodoo for once...and really enjoying it!

For one who saw the Concorde pummel the earth with thundering arrogance, leaving all pilots wondrous in it's wake, I have to say this is one damn cool ad...no to mention the venerable history of one of the world's great airlines.

But do we not belong to one of the world's great airlines....United? Have our brothers and sisters before us not forged history in the same fashion as we have seen from our honorable British compatriots across a war torn ocean?

United may not have had a sleek bullet that flashed afterburners like an enraged angel but I wonder when we will see such recognition, albeit as fanciful and capricious as the the BA ad was.

I wonder...

 

You've obviously never seen the Continental Concorde in old CAL colors on the second floor of the sim building in IAH. Makes your eyes water to think who in the class of 83/84 would have been flying that.

 

You will never see an ad like that here at UAL. Jeff and gang are too busy dreaming up further ways to demoralize our Pilot group, not glorify it.

Great advert though.

 

They still assign complete blame for the summer of 2k on us. Furthermore, we are the reason they went CH11. We are vilified at best.

 

Exactly.

They sure won’t be re-playing this UA commercial anytime soon.

 

Love the commercial, who was the ad agency UK or US?

 

That commercial is blatantly FALSE!! Wide body captains don't do the walk around..

 

I did, especially when it was the F/O's leg and we were in a hurry. No big deal.

 

F-- ME!!!

(That's FLY ME!)

Opps, wrong airline!

 

lol, is that Gene Hackman's voice.