Unintentionally Hilarious Ad For Sioux City Service
Aug 27, 2016, 1:03 am
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Unintentionally Hilarious Ad For Sioux City Service
Has any one else seen the internet banner ads AA is running to promote their Sioux City service? Maybe it was somebody's last day on the job and ...
Aug 27, 2016, 8:09 am
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http://flysux.com/sux-gift/
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Aug 27, 2016, 9:46 am
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I have not seen the ad myself but I am sure it is referring the Sioux City's airport code of SUX. City officials tried for years to get the FAA to allow them to change it but where denied each so. So they decided to embrace it for marketing. They even sell items proudly displaying the SUX.
http://flysux.com/sux-gift/
http://flysux.com/sux-gift/
Yes. Evidently, the airport has a slogan, "Fly SUX", which appears in the ad.
The problem is that the font for "Fly" is so tiny that the word is almost invisible while the font for "SUX" is huge (like 20 times larger than the font for "Fly"). There is a plane with American livery flying above the slogan, so that when you first glance at it, the two words in the ad that stand out are "American" and "SUX". This is in the vertical version of the ad that appears on the side of your window. I have since seen a horizontal version of the ad that isn't as bad.
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Aug 27, 2016, 10:00 am
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Actually, HEL is one of my favorite airports. I have a friend in Germany who hates connecting at Heathrow so badly that she regularly flies Finnair to avoid it. She tells her friends that she'd rather go through HEL than connect at Heathrow.
Aug 27, 2016, 8:57 pm
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Shouldn't they have used the slogan "Flying SUX" instead?
Note that I have a fondness in my heart for Woodbury County, Iowa.
Note that I have a fondness in my heart for Woodbury County, Iowa.
Aug 27, 2016, 9:43 pm
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SUX-FAT and FAT-SUX
Then there are the codes for city names that no longer exist, but the codes are unchanged
BOM - Bombay (Mumbai)
LED - Leningrad (St Petersburg)
SGN - Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Aug 27, 2016, 9:51 pm
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Aug 28, 2016, 8:23 am
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Aug 28, 2016, 11:25 am
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Aug 28, 2016, 11:41 am
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Honestly if I were the local marketing folks embracing the SUX code is probably the best way to go; it's memorable for sure when people are searching for flights. I know they had tried to get it changed a long time back, but were denied by the FAA.
Better than folks around DEN insisting on calling it "DIA" after their request to change was denied. Being consistent (with what works in search engines etc) is much less confusing to travelers. SMF changed official names from "Sacramento Metropolitan Field" to "Sacramento International Airport", but they don't insist on calling it SIA.
Better than folks around DEN insisting on calling it "DIA" after their request to change was denied. Being consistent (with what works in search engines etc) is much less confusing to travelers. SMF changed official names from "Sacramento Metropolitan Field" to "Sacramento International Airport", but they don't insist on calling it SIA.
Aug 28, 2016, 2:50 pm
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