Advertising Fail

[JHB]

Airline ad poster in a Long Island Railroad train in Penn Station, NYC.

What could possibly go wrong?



Because there's nothing that will endear NYC commuters to your airline like massive cluelessness.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. As it turns out

I didn't figure it out.
:shrug:

[Fumesucker]

2. Instant classic.. n/t

[RC]

3. It that

one of the Twin Towers on the right?

[JHB]

6. It's the MetLife (formerly PanAm) Building...

...unless it's been renamed again without my realizing it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. On second thought it looks too low down to be WTC

I guess I got it wrong.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Website could use some sprucing up.

Be sure to type in "www" or it won't come up/

[JHB]

11. So they're sub-par with advertising, with website design...

...Not feeling an urge to board one of their planes.

[MadHound]

5. OK, I admit, I don't get it

Hint?

[Shagbark Hickory]

7. sd

[JHB]

8. Hints:

1) Airliner (Airbus?)
2) Flying over NYC
3) at buiding-level
4) any reminders of 10 years and 2 months ago, today?

[AngkorWot]

10. I guess people are still hypersensitive over 9-11.

And they expect other people to be as well.

[JHB]

13. Having part of your landscape wiped out, and a couple thousand people with it...

...tends to do that.

[sufrommich]

12. Honestly, did not one ad man see a problem with this? nt

[virgogal]

14. My mother would have said to the ad person--------

Don't you ever just stop and THINK?

[BlueJazz]

15. I don't see any thing wrong with the ad. It truly does not have anything to do with 9-11.

...only if you want it to...

[Speck Tater]

16. I looked it over carefully and could find nothing wrong with it.

Then I read the explanation and I still don't see anything wrong with it.

[bvar22]

17. An Airbus...

...flying below the tops of the buildings in New York City,

...and some people don't see a problem? :shrug:

How about an ad that showed children playing with Drano and an EZ Bake Oven?
...any problems?

[Duer 157099]

18. But it's flying AWAY from the building

AND we're talking about it.

Not sure that qualifies as a fail.