TOKYO — Today I present the first installment of “Creating Boredom Around Our Airline” — not as exciting sounding as CHAOS, but it still has a fun ring to it — OK, we’ll work on a better name. Anyway, this could be a regular feature here on PlaneBuzz that highlights the boring and silly press releases that airlines are apt to distribute to the masses.
Our first inductee is the American Airlines Credit Union, who proudly informs us of its newest branch opening in (drum roll, please) Hurst, Texas, though a PR Newswire/NewsCom photo release.
Pictured are, left to right: John Mcintyre, Member-Owner, AA Credit Union, Teresa Meyer, Hurst Branch manager, AA Credit Union, John Tippets, president and CEO, AA Credit Union, Kenny Marchant, U.S. Congressman, and Kent Ash, regional director, AA Credit Union. (Photo courtesy of PRNewsFoto/American Airlines Federal Credit Union.)
We are now awaiting the press release letting us know that the Southwest Airlines’ Credit Union is going to open a competing location, but that regulators will only let them make loans to customers from the states immediately surrounding Texas.
On second thought, maybe this isn’t such a great idea for a regular feature, we might have to rename PlaneBuzz to PlaneZzzz.
I think I’m going to need another cup of coffee…
If you find a press release worthy of mention here, please send Jonathan an e-mail at jonathan at planebusiness dot com.
Ah yes. Dead trees. I guess now that press releases are distributed electronically, blatant overuse of them for mindless purposes doesn’t really constitute a threat to trees anymore. Just to an abuse of bandwidth.
Maybe that’s what we need to call ourselves. Bandwidth Abuse Detectives. BAD.
Okay, I’ll keep thinking.
Yes, for all you PlaneBusiness “lifers” out there, you probably recognize the thought process behind this post. Remember that national PR Newswire release years ago about the Delta ticket office opening in Southlake, TX? Yep. The one by Wal-Mart. Yep. That’s the one.
Thanks to Jonathan, our web editor for the PlaneBusiness enterprise, for this public service posting. Jonathan is still in Japan trying to find clothes that fit him, trying to understand Japanese characters on a computer, and trying to ensure his hotel’s internet connection is up and running.
Which reminds me. If we’re late posting PBB this week, I’m blaming it on the Tokyo Hyatt.