New British Airways Commercial...

[thatone1967]

love this ad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JdQi60an0

btw... was a conscious decision to post it here rather than on TV thread...

[thatone1967]

sorry for the pearost people...mods feel free to close this down...

[LukeSi]

So basically getting better and better, gets to concorde, nah screw progress, lets just use wide bodies instead.

[billzeebub]

great advert, but watching it did think that the progress did kinda peak with Concorde..pushing boundaries rather than just trousering cash..

[bluesatin]

I am having a problem with the to serve bit!!!

[0a]

So they are advertising the company using their best products, the peak of which you cannot purchase any more?

[Simpo Two]

Yep, nice advert.

[Mr Dave]

Its a great advert, made me smile when I seen it on TV a while ago but they didnt show much of the modern jobbies.

[Turbodiesel1690]

Sorry but I also have a big problem with them using Concord in this ad, boils my pish how they discarded her

[FraserLFA]

bluesatin said:

I am having a problem with the to serve bit!!!

[sirtyro]

Great Ad! Love the bit when concorde comes flying past them all

[pacman1]

bluesatin said:

I am having a problem with the to serve bit!!!

You work for Gate Gourmet?

[JaybirdUK]

I remember Clarkson saying he'd imagine telling his grandchildren something like 'of course in my day, we could fly to New York much faster than we can today'

I can't think of any other technology where we've gone backwards?

Love the advert but as others have said, the Concorde sticks out

[HereBeMonsters]

Do they keep saying "Speedbird 1"? Wasn't that the old Concorde flight number? And they're using it from a jumbo? Oh dear god.

[ninja-lewis]

HereBeMonsters said:

Do they keep saying "Speedbird 1"? Wasn't that the old Concorde flight number? And they're using it from a jumbo? Oh dear god.

The flight numbers for Concorde to/from JFK were 001-004 so the callsign was Speedbird Concorde 1. The numbers went unused following the retirement of Concorde until the London City-JFK A318 service was allocated 001 and 002 and hence the Speedbird 1 and 2 callsigns.

[Simpo Two]

Wasn't 'Speedbird' the name of the BA logo?

[Fat Albert]

Wasn't BA's choice to withdraw Concorde, Airbus only had to maintain the Type Approval whilst both airlines flew them, so when Air France withdrew it Airbus then removed the Type Approval, therefore BA was forced to stop as it could not then have a Public Category Cof A

[croyde]

JaybirdUK said:

I remember Clarkson saying he'd imagine telling his grandchildren something like 'of course in my day, we could fly to New York much faster than we can today'

I can't think of any other technology where we've gone backwards?

Love the advert but as others have said, the Concorde sticks out

I already feel weird enough telling my kids that when I was a little boy, men walked on the moon. They ask if that is so, how come there are not great cities up there now

[NismoGT]

So the most modern jet there was the 747?

Thought they would have included the A380 / 787 if they are still planning on buying either?

Concorde bit was cool , but the VC-10 in BOAC livery was cool. Still remember the awesome sound of those RR Conways.

[hidetheelephants]

I was disappointed there were no BCal DC10s, Highland Div 748s, Chippy Embraers, BEA Viscounts/Vanguards/Tridents etc. You could easily fill a half hour with period footage of the various bits that merged to form BA.