Social Media Ooops By Delta

tonyw

tonyw

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I can't get too mad at them for this.

Most Americans, if you asked them to point to Ghana on a map, wouldn't be able to get the continent right. I know it's somewhere in Africa and can point to that continent. That makes me much better than the 80 percent of Americans who probably can't do that, because too many U.S. Americans don't have maps, and the Iraq, and like, and thus and therefore and so on.

But still, if you fly to Ghana, you probably should know there are no giraffes there.

http://www.businessinsider.com/deltas-world-cup-twitter-ghana-giraffe-2014-6

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Looks like Delta flies there from JFK, too. Maybe they'll send the poster there for a quick look-see.
 
I don't know. I kind of look at it like many things you see here in the USA and the use of "file footage". I've seen a number of times on TV discussing stuff "desert" related and speaking specifically to Death Valley, CA, or Western Texas, or the high deserts of Nevada; yet the "file footage" being used is showing Saguaro cacti; of which only exist in the Sonoran desert of southern AZ.

Or the movies that have the file footage of the DC-10 taking off, and the L-1011 landing at the end of the flight.
 
This is a lot of hype over nothing initiated by a bunch of mindless idiots.
Does anyone really care if there are no giraffes in Ghana, I'm smart enough to figure out the African connection. The U.S. team has training centers all over the nation and not one is in NY.
 
Derg said:
Whew! Now the heat is totally off USAirways and American. :) :sarcasm:
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They should have tripled down by including a picture of an airplane model being used in, uh, non labelled ways and threatening to report anyone who corrected them to the authorities. :D
 
Well in Delta's defense, they are used to Juneau operations and high minimums. Fitting for a giraffe no less.

See if it was Alaska, they'd at least have a lion, or cheetah because they are much lower to the ground.
 
tonyw said:
I can't get too mad at them for this.

Most Americans, if you asked them to point to Ghana on a map, wouldn't be able to get the continent right. I know it's somewhere in Africa and can point to that continent. That makes me much better than the 80 percent of Americans who probably can't do that, because too many U.S. Americans don't have maps, and the Iraq, and like, and thus and therefore and so on.

But still, if you fly to Ghana, you probably should know there are no giraffes there.

http://www.businessinsider.com/deltas-world-cup-twitter-ghana-giraffe-2014-6

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But there are giraffes in almost every civilized countries zoos. So there is the outside chance that there might be a giraffe in Ghana. I like giraffes, they seem like a natural adaptation of a deer built to get the higher fruit.
 
MikeD said:
I don't know. I kind of look at it like many things you see here in the USA and the use of "file footage". I've seen a number of times on TV discussing stuff "desert" related and speaking specifically to Death Valley, CA, or Western Texas, or the high deserts of Nevada; yet the "file footage" being used is showing Saguaro cacti; of which only exist in the Sonoran desert of southern AZ.

Or the movies that have the file footage of the DC-10 taking off, and the L-1011 landing at the end of the flight.
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Best file footage found for Africa:
 
Yawn. Who gives a you know what. People take this stuff way too seriously and everyone has to be the smartest person in the room these days. It's stupid.
 
Here's the thing. Flt Ops knows there's no giraffes in Ghana. So does IFS, ACS, and every other operational division. However, no one informed the INTERN working in marketing of that fact. Do you really expect a college student in this country to have an actual working knowledge of the world, and not something gleaned from a Disney movie?

There were giraffes in "Lion King." "Lion King" was set in Africa, ergo, there are giraffes everywhere in the country of "Africa."
 
I'd say it's probably a 50/50 shot on whether Delta even does their own social media posting. A ton of companies hire outside marketing firms to do all of their social media for them, usually as part of an overall marketing package.
 
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