Promoting Hawaii travel on Twitter hours after a false missle alarm is bad timing.
 

Over a million people just got through the idea of dying from a missile strike and AS promotes taking a vacation there.

Maybe it's because I have family there but that's just bad taste.

Tweet is now deleted but trying to post it:https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a28b544926.png

Many times these promotional tweets are scheduled to post in advance so don't get your knickers in such a knot.

I agree...I think most folks outside of Hawaii still don't even know about the false alarm....I didn't know about it until I read this post....nothing really to see here....

non sequitur

I think it's just you. What does a false missile alarm have to do with tourism promotion? How exactly is this bad taste? They're encouraging people to visit Hawaii.

Neil

It shows the continued ineptitude from top to bottom. If Hawaii did get struck, this tweet probably still would've got posted, ponder that. Expected something like this from the big three. Profiting after a near disaster, how tasteful.

Respectfully, I think you're being overly sensitive. They're not "profiting" off the false alarm. They're trying to run an airline, running promotional material as they do every single day. I bet the Hawaii Tourism Authority didn't pull their tv ads either.

can we close and delete this thread? Thanks - Cheers from Maui

...and I just saw the following commercial :o

I would think Hawaii would welcome the promotion. The State of Hawaii will profit just as much as AS. Think about how many people were not aware of the (almost non-existent imho) threat of a missile hitting Hawaii, and are now rethinking their plans. Much like the people cancelling trips to Mexico destinations that are perfectly safe at the moment, such as PV, based on the general travel warnings.

Just my thoughts.

Ineptitude? Top to bottom of what?--AS? And what "near disaster"? No one was "nearly struck" by anything.

I can well imagine the false alarm was rattling to those who received it. But certainly no reason to now rattle their economy in a misplaced economic 'moment of silence' over what was by all accounts a false alarm. It makes no sense to me for all promotion of any location to stop just because it's been otherwise 'promoted' in the news. If anything, that's a moment to punctuate the attention in a positive manner.

I'm just glad AS is promoting Honolulu. Please, everyone go there. ;)

Would it have been okay if AS waited 1 day before running this post? 2 days? Or do some people think that AS should cancel all advertising relating to Hawaii because of this false alarm? Reductio ad absurdam.

I'm frankly outraged by every outrageously outrageous social media post!!!!! OUTRAGE!! IMPEACH NOW!! Today's outrage is this very post by the OP! OUTRAGEOUSLY OUTRAGEOUS. I'm going to scream into the sky and I'm literally shaking right now with outrage