I don't know if I like this:
I don't know if I like this:
Well, I bet if they offered you a left seat on one of those you would forget the logos pretty quick......
-Skip
...and having pop-up ads on the EFIS screens would be going way too far!
Trapper John
This is only the beginning. In a recent article of Aviation Week and Space Technology, Spirit Airlines has come up with a new idea to increase revenue through advertisement. Their idea entails selling add space on their aircraft's table trays, overhead bins, and window panels. If that isn't annoying and comparable to NASCAR, I don't know what is.
You guys are going to love wireless push advertising on your mobile phones!!
Hehe wouldn't it be funny if they made the pilots wear uniforms like the racing suits used in Nascar????
Why not just stream out a bannger during the STAR and reel it in on 3 mile final?
In LA thats millions of ppl for 20+ miles.
That sounds like the source to dig up a ton of conspiracy nuts.They could pulse the engines to make ads in the chemtrails!*
(* I cannot beee -leave there are that many wackos in the country. Oh. Yes, I can.)
(How much revenue do the airlines get from spraying chemicals?)
US Air already has adds on the tray tables. I was a little surprised the first time I folded one down and saw an add for cell phones, or whatever it was! They don't have the adds in first class, though, go figure. The windows, though...that's just going too far, and I'd imagine (hope) the FAA would fight that as a potential safety hazard!
Hehe wouldn't it be funny if they made the pilots wear uniforms like the racing suits used in Nascar????
If F on US is similar to AA (the only domestic F product I get to experience), they don't advertise to us with a sticker on the wall, but with 4 magazines for the "luxury lifestyle". Drives me bleeping bonkers.
Cheers,
-Andrew
Has anyone other than me had the *gulp* RyanAir experience in Europe. I got a headache as soon as I walked into their terminal, and it didn't leave until I got off the stinking bus on the other side.
They don't dim the lights at all. Constant ads playing over what on any civilized airline would be the in-flight entertainment system. Stewardesses walking up and down the aisles selling food, drink, lottery tickets, cell phone plans, insurance, and anything else you can think of. And all the other passengers screaming and carrying on like it was the metro after a large football match.
I'm *almost* thankful that the return flight got canceled with no advance warning.
Product placement has been around for a LONG time. Delta (among others) had deals with various vendors wherein they got the product cheap or free - Sun Chips was a recent example.
I doubt that those magazines are cost neutral or even profitable when you take into account the TCO of the product (making it, printing it, distributing it, carrying it on the plane).
Cheers,
-Andrew