signol

I thought it was a movie tie-in for Paddington 2, who I was expecting to pop up and welcome his visitors any moment!

signol

Oxon Flyer

Well, Petula Clark says it's Petula Clark.

https://twitter.com/Petula_Clark/status/932654168451571713

simons1

Very nicely done, I must say.

wrp96

I think he's just lifting it onto the cart.

710 77345

Indeed, you can see him lifting the same case on to the cart again 5 seconds later.

xenole

So what's the point of this?
Either I've missed something or it gives the impression that flying BA or whoever is really depressing for the most part.
(Added: Watched it again and he seems to have pulled a member of the cabin crew and they've spent their days together when he's not being depressed flying)

Might have been nice if they had thrown Concorde in somewhere considering how much of a place it has in the airline's history..

Walkers shortbread / biscuits. Didn't realise you could get them in the 60s.

corporate-wage-slave

The clue is in very first screen "Closer Heathrow". It's publicity for HAL, rather than BA, but if you are going to do a 40 year retrospective then you're going to run out of airlines if you didn't make BAOC/BA the centre piece. Plus BA's ever evolving corporate identity will always win over that of its landlord, which in any case wasn't there 40 years ago. So if you look all over Heathrow you will see the Closer campaign in evidence. For example there are pictures of two girls off to Mexico, one thinking "holiday romance", the other thinking the complete opposite; a gay couple reflecting on "where it all started" in Sydney, young families being reunited after flying, and so on.

In other words the message is if you want to get closer to the things that matter to you - family, friends, places - Heathrow is there to make it happen.
http://www.heathrow.com/more/closer

The campaign was devised by Havas, and I would guess the bears - from last year - were blended into the Closer ethos:
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/heathrow-wonderers-havas-london/1436088
http://creativity-online.com/work/heathrow-airport-wonderers/51963

[And Joseph Walker has been making shortbread in Moray since 1898 and is now Scotland's biggest food exporter. It's still run by the Walker family].

xenole

Have to say that the Heathrow "closer" ad under the link above worked better for me than the bears ad. Apart from the voiceover, seems less depressing and a good mix.

Sure Joseph is long gone by now
They do seem to have quite a presence in airports etc. around the world. They make shortbread for Sainsbury etc.
Do pop into their factory shop most times I'm driving through Aberlour between Buckie and the A9 at Aviemore. Slightly swayed towards Deans of Huntly although they've a few too many shortbread products with vegetable oil now instead of just butter (great black pudding as part of the Scottish breakfast in their café). Not sure if they make the tea flavoured biscuits you get in the Pier J lounge in HKG as I've had Earl Grey biscuits from them in the past.

Scillybear

Why is it a "BOAC Cunard" Plane in the first scene ?

Wikipedia says BOAC Cunard was dissolved in 1966.

Does that real aircraft have BOAC Cunard Livery or is it CGI ?

flatlander

If you follow the google maps link that I posted above you can answer the second question for yourself.