Originally Posted by
OttoMH
I do enjoy your posts, Pucci Galore!
Many people say 'vote with your feet' but I'm part of a generation that saw the brand as aspirational luxury! As a poorish, uncool child emerging from the Thatcher years in to a new time of prosperity and celebrity, the draw of Saachi & Saachi ads, the world's favorite airline, the glamour and draw of the fading empire was just too much! My eyes sparked with the desire to be somewhere better, warmer, more intriguing and to do so in style. A relationship with the air, the brand, the style was formed and with a good serving of cheeky champagne flirting too.
To me, the sad demise of a well loved, respected and valued friend is a bit more personal than burning you mouth for the forth time on far-too-hot Costa and walking on to Pret. It is more the sad pain of seeing the family's best friend who's muzzle has turned grey and now limps along awkwardly in the park, falling behind and struggling to quite make a jump in to the boot. We all know the end of what was, is near, but refuse to accept it.
I think this is why we continue to subject ourselves to slipping standards and begrudge it so much? We've turned in to the bickering couple, who can't stand each other but equally have become so invested and depended that they can't imagine being apart!
I'll reflect on this as I spend a total of 40 hours in WTP in the next weeks, longing for what was, begrudging what is and moaning for what should be.
(If I survive the trip of course...)
An excellent analogy Sir - I could not agree with you more.
One thing though - what goes around comes around - I know that American were on their uppers a few years back and honestly it was a shade of its former self. There, they have this system of Chapter 11 to protect oneself in bankruptcy. They are now merger with US Airways for good or ill. I suspect that things are going to get worse at BA before it dawns on them that they just cannot keep snipping and cutting. One day it will come home to roost.