Continentalization of DIA
 

When I started connecting at IAH I noticed no matter where I turned, I was never far from an ad for a CO credit card. At the gates, in the club, along the walls next to moving walk ways. Basically all advertising space in the airport was owned by Chase/CO.

At DIA a few weeks ago a sign went up that you see as you exit the United Club - something along the lines of "proud to serve Denver for the past 75 years". That's safe.

Last night when I got off a flight from Dallas, I noticed that the backside of the new flight status screens are now covered with Explorer Card ads. As I approach the escalators to the trains, there are rotating billboards for Explorer Cards. Of course, there are ads when you leave TSA and head down the escalators to the train - except when WN trumps UA.

It's madness, you can't escape credit card ads everywhere.

Ugh....

I don't think it has anything to do with Continentalization.

I think that the airport is selling ad space to maximize revenue. Better that than increasing fees.

I think you are correct, but he has a point. When you walk from the IAD C train station back to the "temporary" train station, you are assaulted by an unbroken line of Explorer card ads. As you go up the escalator, two huge Explorer card banners. No variety, just the same ad, ad after ad, after ad after.....

To be fair, IAD has had UA credit card offers plastered over it for some time.

I just wish they'd take a tiny bit of the revenue from those cards and invest in the real midfield concourse.

Sounds more like Chasization to me.

I guess you haven't been to ORD lately which is infested with card barkers. Unsure which of 7,294 various cards they're hawking but I give them a wide berth. I cancelled my UA whatever card last month. Annual fee was absurd.

This is not Continental.... it's Chase. I am sure that either UA or the airport gets the revenue.

BTW, what do you see when browsing FT? I see a lot of Explorer ads :)

THANK YOU. I was waiting for someone to note that ORD was wall-to-wall Chase MP card advertisements for years now.

Everyone's in such a hurry to demonize whichever side isn't "yours"...how about we all just step back and BREATHE a little bit?

Well I'm glad that all our hubs have been plastered to pieces with these ads, but that doesn't really make it right. And maybe it's just been harder to get the airport authority in Denver to approve adding signage in places it didn't exist before inside the terminal, but just like graffiti defacing otherwise attractive public spaces, the plastering in Denver has gotten much worse of late and I'm not pleased about it.

I find it ironic that this specific post should have a large explorer ad in it on FT :D.

Figure you'd get a kick out of this
 

Figured you'd get a kick out of flyertalk's advertisement in your post:

http://i.imgur.com/BeR7U.png

I just took a photo yesterday from the window during pushback -- every gate till the end of the concourse filled with Continental-liveried tails, including the RJs gates. It was impressive.

Not sure how to post the photo here...

LOL, thanks!