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United "You're going to like where we land." ad at WTC site
Following the flight 93/175 reinstatement debacle, another gaffe out of United at the site of the UAL175 crash. (www.nbcnewyork.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is going to far, its an ad...
stupit on uniteds part as well as the vendor. i would have put the ad in a different ;ocation
United hired the vendor to put up a certain number of signs scattered around the region. The actual locations were selected by that vendor, not United. So blaming United is ridiculous.
its not united's fault, though it does sound a pretty bad coincidence that it was placed there.
It's pretty bad coincidence. United should fire their marketing agency for this giant error.
If you remember the downing of KAL 007 by the Russians over s ahkalin Island en-route to Seoul you will like this. They started an ad that week that said "Your flight on Korean not only seems shorter, it is shorter" as they had just been approved for a shorter route. Things like this happen and it is nobody's fault.
A company that hires an agency that uses bad judgement should be prepared to accept blame if they get negative publicity. And most people won't dig down to get the facts behind a story but will accept it at face value. Many, many more will hear about it second hand. All will conclude that United did a bad thing. It's not ridiculous, it's human nature. Sometimes a confluence of events and circumstances that come into play does produce an unfortunate result that is nobody's fault. This is not such an instance.