British Airways has done an incredible job with their marketing over the past year or so, in particular with their “BA Magic” campaign. Through this, they encouraged people to write in sharing a trip they’d like to take for a special reason, and British Airways (sometimes) makes it happen in a very special way. In…
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Well I think it was a scam by the nursing home to get her out of their place. Send her to Belfast one way! 😉
Oh bloody hell. I can’t believe these cold-blooded soulless Brits can make me teary eyed with their BA Magic campaign.
This is really touching, however let’s make it clear that BA is certainly not 100.
BA was established on 31 March 1974 and will be 45 next year
They are simply attempting to steal KLM’s limelight as they will be 100 next year as most people won’t realise or bother to check the facts
Icarus - Not that it remotely matters, but the first airline which has been absorbed into what is now BA is 99 years old.
Unfortunately, the near-centenarian had a heart attack when BA told her the amount of the fuel surcharges.
Derek is Irish himself so who better to surprise and accompany Mary.
Kudos to BA.
BA is a joke of an airline, their PR won't fix their problems (CEO.) It's funny how you Lucky only write about BA PR ad 🙂 there is obviously nothing else to write about: no new seats, no good service, no pride in the airline an certainly passengers getting more annoyed about the first low cost airline in Europe and/or world that uses 747 and A380! 🙂
What a beautiful video! It's a good thing she was in a wheelchair as it looked like she had several glasses of champagne, and I doubt she can keep her liver in drinking shape at the old folks' home.
@Ella
How I see is that she was deprived of alcohol for all these years. BA just pump alcohol into her liver.
@Tomasz Skrzypczack - Wow every day I see you on some blog or other moaning about BA. They must have heart you badly.
@Evan - Every day? There is not that many blog posts about BA anyway. I live in Britain and I wish there was a better national airline here to use. Moaning is good in this case. These PR stunts BA does make me even more annoyed because one nice video doesn't change how airline does it business with it's passengers. You think BA is good? Just check any BA flight review on one of the youtubers, it's so predictable - always ending up in bad experience.
Isn't Belfast in Northern Ireland (which is part of the UK), not Ireland, which is an independent country?
Tomasz the points guy has a relatively positive review from July. Give that a read. There's a great national airline in Britain called Emirates. Regular flights from all major airports 🙂
@Aaron Tan - "national airline in Britain called Emirates" - that's funny and sad at the same time 🙂 🙂