Qantas social media fail

[laffer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...opponent_capitalises/?st=IXBFWGPA&sh=5969a56e

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[straitman]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...opponent_capitalises/?st=IXBFWGPA&sh=5969a56e

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Not much else to say really :!:

 

[Homer]

Cool response by the Tiger/VA social team.

 

[RooFlyer]

Not to mention whatever the hell "Australia.com" is. WTF?

Also fail by using the non-corporate font, or corporate choosing a font that isn't readily usable in common communications.

 

[samh004]

Doesn't seem real? Not sure why they'd use a photo that isn't one of their planes, and of course the "Australia.com" bit. Maybe if we could find the actual post but if it was real I doubt it would exist anymore.

 

[bismarck]

I'd wager it's photoshopped.

 

[Boris spatsky]

I saw the original on social media and 1) i don't recall it saying Australia.com and 2) it looked like a Jetstar A320 winglet to me, not Tiger. Seemed legit to me.

 

[YSSY]

Yes, Qantas did post a photo of a Tiger Air aircraft and the response by Tiger etc

 

[YSSY]

 

[yohy?!]

in the proud tradition of #qantasluxury

 

[blackcat20]

Yep it was real.

 

[Hvr]

All organisations make mistakes like this, Qantas are certainly not virgins in this regard.

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

This was doing the rounds on Social Media Yesterday, and certainly not generating positive publicity.
Not a good look to have a competitors plane in the photo

 

[serfty]

Doesn't seem real? Not sure why they'd use a photo that isn't one of their planes, and of course the "Australia.com" bit. Maybe if we could find the actual post but if it was real I doubt it would exist anymore.

It not longer exists, but it indeed occurred.

There are caches ...

 

[moa999]

Reportedly the original photographer mistagged it..
And someone on QF just reposted it, without looking at the winglets

Suspect a few more people will be trying to trick the QF team now

Interestingly the dhonstenzain account seems to have deleted the pic and isn't particularly prolific

 

[samh004]

Might be time to re-think the downsizing of the social media team.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Be fair all. QF just didn't have a spare plane to use ... they were all tied up in Dubai.

 

[harvyk]

My Mrs, whose only knowledge about planes is that they fly (and I like them) picked up that it was not a QF plane in 2 seconds. Me almost wonders if the QF social media team has been primarily replaced by an algorithm which searches the web for photos of planes with tags which say #Qantas and will simply repost them. It would certainly explain some of their current posting failures.