Virgin Australia will today launch a national print and billboard campaign that gives us some indication of what we can expect from the brand in the future. Unlike the more flamboyant “flygirl” campaigns we’ve come to expect from the Virgin brand, today’s launch is far more subtle and focuses on what the company claims is [...]
Ryanair’s “Book to the sun” advertisement banned
The British advertising watchdog (Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA) has banned yet another Ryanair advertising campaign. The print advertisement features a bikini clad model promoting “sunny” destinations – despite average spring temperatures ranging between only 6 and 10 degrees Celsius. Normally, I’d struggle to determine if this was a deliberate attempt to elicit a response [...]
Branding Braniff International

The brilliant Braniff International (1928-1982) advertising campaign of the late 60′s was a broad strategy employed to re-invent the airline and its struggling brand from inevitable obscurity. The marketing effort was managed by Mary Wells Lawrence who was one of the highest paid advertising executives of her era, and she was considered to be one [...]
Braniff International ‘Air Strip’

Sex sells, right? The Braniff International (1928-1982) ‘Air Strip’ television and print advertising was part of a broader campaign that was used to re-invent the airline – read about it here. In the television commercial, a ‘hostess’ casually takes layers of her Emilio Pucci ‘hostess’ uniform for the duration of the commercial in the form [...]
Ryanair & easyJet Bitchflight

Who doesn’t love an airline bitch-fight? The difference between European airlines and what we generally see in the Asia-Pacific arena is that the Europeans don’t wear gloves. I quite enjoy the competitive banter between Australian airlines – particularly Jetstar and Virgin Blue – who always seems to be up for a friendly cat-flight; much of [...]
Billboard Ambush Advertising in India

I was just making my way through an old terabyte hard drive trying to make sense of my madness when I came across this brilliant billboard advertising campaign. Three Indian airlines – Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Go Airlines – all tired to outdo each other in their outdoor advertising campaigns. It all started when [...]
Terrible Turkish Airlines Advertisement

Every now and again there’s a print advertisement in the airline world that makes you question the intent of the marketing company. Were they looking for a slot on media watch? Were they looking to have their awful advert circulated via the web for brand awareness? Were the designers on drugs at the time… or [...]
Air New Zealand asks Twitter Followers for Marketing Advice

What does any airline marketing department do that’s just created a bunch of insulting and confrontational advertisements for a range of their destinations? The option Air New Zealand chose was to share a range of ideas with their Twitter following via Twitpic.com for feedback. What followed were an avalanche of insults and some constructive criticism [...]







