“DON’T CRY FOR ME….
!”
9/11 was a terrible tragedy which will remain in the memory of everyone that lived through that
September day.
It certainly got a response but it also led to a period when the volume of airline
business dipped.
British Airways’...
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“DON’T CRY FOR ME….
!”
9/11 was a terrible tragedy which will remain in the memory of everyone that lived through that
September day.
It certainly got a response but it also led to a period when the volume of airline
business dipped.
British Airways’ strategy to get the public flying again was to offer greatly
discounted flights to worldwide destinations, ten a day for a week in a national daily.
I was waiting for Cape Town, one of my favourite cities, day after day and come the last day of the
promotion, it still wasn’t there but my eye fell on Buenos Aires for £198 return and I could ring at
9am, two hours from now (I was an early tee off in a golf competition!).
9am duly arrived and it was
engaged when I rang; in days gone by it would have been a ring back but now the call is held in a
queue with sales messages until connection.
When that connection was made, I quickly said to the girl on the other end not to worry if I wasn’t
on line for 30 seconds, I’d be playing a golf shot;
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