Originally Posted by
AA100k
I’m always amazed at all the complaining about the credit card pitch. It’s a small annoyance on a long list of highly irritating stuff about flying like the TSA, parking hassles, battle of the overhead bins, screaming children, delays, flight cancellations and on and on and on. I’ll take the obnoxious one minute sales pitch over all the other crap that happens in the course of a routine flight day.
There is no reason to choose between a hangnail or a broken leg when you could choose to have neither.
AA is not required to give us a poor passenger experience, and we are not required to take a poor passenger experience without objecting to it. We want neither a hangnail nor a broken leg and that's an entirely reasonable desire.
We have become so accustomed to poor quality service that we are starting to believe that it is normal to accept it.
Originally Posted by
gosha83
Between the obnoxious full volume "preview" of what's available on the IFE, the non-skippable ads before you gain access to the said IFE, the pre-roll ads before your selected show AND these credit card pitches, the entire flight feels like having all of Times Square shoved into your brain at once - except you paid several hundred/thousand dollars for the privilege. It's extremely annoying and I even as an advertising guy, I find the whole experience horrendous.
100%.