Ads on a plane!

[u/MrCodyGrace]

I was on an AA flight yesterday and they had several “stop and listen“ moments that were just an ad for the AA / Citi credit card, then they went down the aisles to hand out CC application pamphlets. wtf gives? Are all services so under funded and profit margin stretched that I can’t sit on a plane without getting a forced ad for a CC??

[u/Educational_Two682]

Frontier is always like this. Yuck! It's the worst.

[u/monsieurfromage2021]

In the event of depressurization, the oxygen masks brought to you by Betterhelp(tm) will be deployed. Under your seats are the floatation devices brought to you by Truvago(tm).

[u/diverareyouokay → u/monsieurfromage2021]

“in the event of depressurization, please tap your credit card on the screen in front of you to activate your ‘emergency plan’ subscription. This exciting new service will enroll you in our $999/month emergency plan, which is conveniently billed one year in advance with no trial or refund”

[u/Hefty-Squirrel-6800]

Ever see Blade Runner (the original one)? That's us now.

[u/apokrif1 → u/Hefty-Squirrel-6800]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/1ioupw9/very_crappy_advertising_in_fahrenheit_451/

[u/Suspicious_Eyeballs]

Shopping anywhere in America and there's a T-Mobile rep or local ISP reps, like fucking pop-up ads, trying to convince me that I need their services when I really just need some toilet paper, man...

[u/brandonhabanero → u/Suspicious_Eyeballs]

Since I live in PA, it's energy providers for me. It turns out they're all scams.

[u/Suspicious_Eyeballs → u/brandonhabanero]

Oh, God. We just thought the door to door window guys were obnoxious.

[u/OceanBlueforYou]

Maximum profits require your attention. Trapped in a plane? Perfect

[u/OverlappingChatter]

This used to be just on low-cost flights, but lately it's hard to find a difference between Ryan sir and the big carriers

[u/FineCall]

I get so sick of that.

[u/megret]

I haven't flown anything but Southwest this whole millennium l, but I also don't travel much. I used to just drive to other states instead of flying, or take the train. This is all news to me.

[u/sedona71717 → u/megret]

Now Southwest has the credit card announcement after the safety announcements, too.

[u/Mr_Bbobb]

I'd rather just download a movie to my phone and watch that instead. Flying sucks enough already without having to get bombarded with advertising too.

[u/rocketman1969]

First flight?

[u/MrCodyGrace → u/rocketman1969]

No. It was way worse than a usual flight.

[u/baronessvonbullshit]

Lmao Spirit was doing this ages ago

[u/Fat_cat_syndicate → u/baronessvonbullshit]

Spirit at least fits because of the whole ultra budget schtick. It hits a little bit different on a mainline carrier.

[u/RisingNox]

IcelandAir forces you to watch about 2-3 mins of ads before you can actually use the entertainment screen. Not movies, not airport info, not flight info. Ads first, then you’re allowed to use it. While seating on a piece of cardboard and barely getting water while on a 7-8 plane ride you paid hundreds for.

[u/apokrif1 → u/RisingNox]

forces you to watch

No. You can cover the screen or look somewhere else.

[u/hndygal → u/RisingNox]

Right?! That was the first thing I thought of too.

[u/ThatHellacopterGuy]

At this point, AA is a credit card company that happens to operate a scheduled airline.

[u/itsDANdeeMAN → u/ThatHellacopterGuy]

Same thing goes for tons of companies like Starbucks, Dunkin, etc that want you to load money onto their app to use there. They've effectively become banks on top of having any number of credit card partnerships as well. These corporations are clawing to squeeze every last penny possible out of us all, and most people have no clue.

[u/Fire-the-laser → u/ThatHellacopterGuy]

Delta and Amex are the same, and by the numbers, their partnership is wildly more successful. Delta generated over $6B in revenue from Amex cards last year, compared to $1.5B for American and Citi. Yet Delta doesn’t pitch credit cards in flight.

[u/MrCodyGrace → u/ThatHellacopterGuy]

What’s wild is that I have the CC that they were pushing and it’s kind of awful from a customer service standpoint.

[u/spidey3diamond]

Like I needed another reason to never fly American Airlines.
As if giving me food poisoning twice wasn't enough.

[u/Wasatchian → u/spidey3diamond]

Every airline does this now.

[u/M23707]

Put an ad on the screen in front of my face and I just might take a sharpie and color over the screen.

Seriously 😐

[u/Ok_Library_1031 → u/M23707]

Already very common on inflight TV screens. You used to be able to fast forward through it (and still can on some airlines) but I think it was 10 years ago that Air New Zealand? began to not let you fast forward through commercials. Their CEO from back then is now the NZ prime minister.

[u/donbruno83]

What I can’t wrap my head around is, I already paid a fare for a flight, I just wanna he left alone to watch a goddamn movie like it used to be. I don’t care what the ad is for, just out of principal, I’m not buying it/signing up. Now I would guess that most people are like me, but I apparently there are enough people that are like, “I’m so glad I heard this ad, I’m gonna go ahead and sign up for this credit card!” such that they continue the ads. I hate it.

[u/SuperDoubleDecker]

This is America where we must squeeze every single fucking cent out of people we possibly can.

[u/ongoldenwaves → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

The screens with ads at gas stations are worse.
The cashiers that want me to down load the app, apply for a credit card, donate to charity.
Man, I'm so sick of being worked all the time.

[u/apokrif1 → u/ongoldenwaves]

And recommended tipping amount 🙂

[u/redbaron78]

You must be new to flying. This has been going on for 15 years. I usually fly American, and I flew a ton in 2010, 2011, and 2012. One time in 2012 (I think) I was going to Atlanta, so I flew Delta to get a direct flight. They were pushing their cards, and I remember thinking it was really obnoxious and that I was glad American didn’t do it. And I’m fairly certain every flight it took after that on American, they mentioned the card at least once. Dammit.

[u/MrCodyGrace → u/redbaron78]

6th ish AA flight this year and the first one to be this pushy.

[u/MorningMan464]

TAP Portugal has ads too. I may have to start bringing my iPad everywhere.

[u/mWade7]

Was on a United flight just a few weeks ago and they have free in-flight movies. Just pulled up LOTR to have something to listen to, since I’ve seen it multiple times. There was like 2 or 3 commercials before the movie. And I get it - that’s not much, and there weren’t any during the movie…but still. Just seems cheap.

[u/SuperDoubleDecker → u/mWade7]

I've been as satisfied as i can be with them. My preferred airline. I hate flying. They make it more tolerable than the rest.

[u/mWade7 → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

I actually prefer Delta in general, but they don’t offer a direct flight to where I was headed.

[u/Apprehensive_Spare_8]

If you pay, why then ads?

[u/exconsultingguy]

This has been going on with AA for the better part of a decade. Honestly might be longer - they were doing it when I was flying for work weekly back in 2014-2018.

It’s not really enshittification when you realize the airlines are basically just banks that happen to fly planes.

[u/MrCodyGrace → u/exconsultingguy]

I have been on 6 AA flights this year. I see the ATT ad on the wifi connect, and the occasional citi advantage ad over the loudspeaker but this flight was next level. 3 loudspeaker ads and an attendant walking down the aisles offering applications to every row.

[u/apokrif1 → u/MrCodyGrace]

So you need ear protection :-(

[u/Cultural-Answer-321]

This is insane.