Do you fly for giggles?
Oct 31, 22, 4:05 pm
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Do you fly for giggles?
From BA to my inbox (highlights are mine):
"We all have reasons for flying. For giggles. To wear flippers. Or to tell the stories you brought back from Zurich.
They shape us and make us the one-of-a-kind, original individuals we are.
Whatever the reason for your next trip, you have XXXXXXX Avios to shape more original moments.
Moments that help make you, you. A true original. "
Who writes this junk? I'm increasingly worried that my travel profile (as one who wishes to fly from A to B, safely and on time, with reasonable cost and comfort) is no longer within the BA target spectrum.
Nevertheless, when we next sit at T5 for the umpteenth time waiting for stand guidance to be turned on, I shall be looking out in the cabin for the giggling, flipper-wearing "one-of-a-kind original individual" (whatever that dreadful verbiage means), presumably finding his true "you, you" through appreciation of those magical moments.
p.s. From the Cambridge dictionary:
Giggle: to laugh repeatedly in a quiet but uncontrolled way, often at something silly or rude or when you are nervous.
"We all have reasons for flying. For giggles. To wear flippers. Or to tell the stories you brought back from Zurich.
They shape us and make us the one-of-a-kind, original individuals we are.
Whatever the reason for your next trip, you have XXXXXXX Avios to shape more original moments.
Moments that help make you, you. A true original. "
Who writes this junk? I'm increasingly worried that my travel profile (as one who wishes to fly from A to B, safely and on time, with reasonable cost and comfort) is no longer within the BA target spectrum.
Nevertheless, when we next sit at T5 for the umpteenth time waiting for stand guidance to be turned on, I shall be looking out in the cabin for the giggling, flipper-wearing "one-of-a-kind original individual" (whatever that dreadful verbiage means), presumably finding his true "you, you" through appreciation of those magical moments.
p.s. From the Cambridge dictionary:
Giggle: to laugh repeatedly in a quiet but uncontrolled way, often at something silly or rude or when you are nervous.
Last edited by Bullswood; Nov 1, 22 at 4:51 pm Reason: To add a definition for those unfamiliar with hip BA marketing-speak
Oct 31, 22, 4:16 pm
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Oct 31, 22, 5:34 pm
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Krakow for me. Must have slipped their collective that they had to rebook me on LH through Frankfurt. Then there were my two mates who they rebooked on LH through Munich. Only for one of them to not have a seat on the flight and be sent from Munich to Venice to get a BA flight from there. How we all giggled. Good of them them to remind us, odd marketing approach to remind your customers how you messed up their trip.
Oct 31, 22, 6:06 pm
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Hang on...so from the above quote & DougZZ's comments, is the BA destination quoted in:
"tell the stories you brought back from....." personalised from a data trawl of the addressee's recent travels, rather than fixed or random? How clever, not.
In my case the booked destination carefully chosen for my personal email is Zurich. The problem is that BA never actually got me there on my First trip SFO/ZRH a few months ago, having been dumped with family at LHR CCR whilst in transit, without assistance, accommodation or re-booking. The
"memory" is of a ruined holiday, unsupported and impotent staff, substantial claims & eventual compensation (thanks to help from this forum).
If so, BA marketing, it's not very clever of you to remind me... nor to recall "the stories I brought back" of your shortcomings, which were already shared around many a barbie of giggling ex-potential customers.
Given the number of addressee frequent flyers who must have suffered disrupted journeys in recent months, this email is so thoroughly crass that I cannot believe it... (uttered with the Victor Meldrew exasperation which seems to beset many of my dealings with BA these days).
Or maybe I can.
"tell the stories you brought back from....." personalised from a data trawl of the addressee's recent travels, rather than fixed or random? How clever, not.
In my case the booked destination carefully chosen for my personal email is Zurich. The problem is that BA never actually got me there on my First trip SFO/ZRH a few months ago, having been dumped with family at LHR CCR whilst in transit, without assistance, accommodation or re-booking. The
"memory" is of a ruined holiday, unsupported and impotent staff, substantial claims & eventual compensation (thanks to help from this forum).
If so, BA marketing, it's not very clever of you to remind me... nor to recall "the stories I brought back" of your shortcomings, which were already shared around many a barbie of giggling ex-potential customers.
Given the number of addressee frequent flyers who must have suffered disrupted journeys in recent months, this email is so thoroughly crass that I cannot believe it... (uttered with the Victor Meldrew exasperation which seems to beset many of my dealings with BA these days).
Or maybe I can.
Last edited by Bullswood; Nov 1, 22 at 5:51 pm
