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

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

Old Jan 13, 2018, 3:48 pm
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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.
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Old Jan 13, 2018, 3:59 pm
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Old Jan 13, 2018, 6:22 pm
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Many times these promotional tweets are scheduled to post in advance so don't get your knickers in such a knot.
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Old Jan 13, 2018, 6:56 pm
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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....
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Old Jan 13, 2018, 8:15 pm
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Originally Posted by SpicyMorale
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.
non sequitur
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Old Jan 13, 2018, 9:40 pm
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Originally Posted by SpicyMorale
Maybe it's because I have family there but that's just bad taste.
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.

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Old Jan 14, 2018, 12:21 am
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Originally Posted by missamo80
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.

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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.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 12:32 am
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Originally Posted by SpicyMorale
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.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 12:47 am
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can we close and delete this thread? Thanks - Cheers from Maui
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 12:55 am
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...and I just saw the following commercial

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Old Jan 14, 2018, 2:58 am
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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.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 4:02 am
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Originally Posted by SpicyMorale
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.
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.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 9:04 am
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I'm just glad AS is promoting Honolulu. Please, everyone go there.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 2:36 pm
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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.
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Old Jan 14, 2018, 2:36 pm
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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
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