Virgin Atlantic celebrate 1st Birthday

Interesting visual pun!

The Ides of March!

Snapped some interesting ads this week of March.

Lamcy Plaza, Emirates Today, 25/03/07



Monster.com, 7Days, 25/03/07


Bur Juman, 7Days, 25/03/07



HSBC Bank, Gulf News, 23/03/07



Air France, Gulf News, 25/03/07


Liberty Motors, Gulf News, 25/03/07


Jumeirah, Gulf News, 25/03/07

Some interesting November ads

HITACHI Cyclone - Vacuum Cleaner

KT, 7 Nov 06

Dubai Racing Club

CME (Campaign Middle East), 5 Nov 06

The Dubai Desert Challenge Rally Championship

7 Days, 2 Nov 06

Borders Bookshop

7 Days, 5 Nov 06

Al Habtoor Motors

KT, 8 Nov 06

Aer Lingus - Irish Airways

7 Days, 8 Nov 06

IKEA

KT, 1 Nov 06

Air Arabia celebrates 3rd birthday with even lower fares - Print Campaign

7 Days, 2 Nov 06


7 Days, 3 Nov 06


7 Days, 13 Nov 06

Air France - 'Making the sky the best place on earth' - Print campaign

ET, 16 Oct 06


ET, 9 Oct 06

Etihad Airways - 'New York' print campaign & direct mail

PRINT CAMPAIGN


7 Days, 10 Oct 06


KT, 8 Oct 06



KT, 18 Oct 06

DIRECT MAILER

Front:


Inside:


Back:

Emirates Airlines - 'Decisions' Print campaign

KT, 16 Oct 06


KT, 8 Oct 06


KT, 2 Oct 06

Etihad Airways - 'Guest' Print Campaign

KT, 10 Oct 06


KT, 4 Oct 06


KT, 1 Oct 06

ETIHAD Guest Print Campaign - 'Service' theme

KT, 16 Sep 06


GN, 9 Sep 06

Air Arabia Campaign - The Details

I had earlier posted the ads of the Air Arabia campaign . This week's CampaignME newspaper has an article about the campaign. Posting the full article here in case you are hard pressed for time to visit the url.

Air Arabia ditches cartoon ads

http://www.campaignme.com/news/air-arabia-ditches-cartoon-ads.php

Low cost carrier Air Arabia has ditched its South Park-style cartoon characters and launched a new advertising campaign, the third major marketing push in 18 months.

New direction... Air Arabia's new creative focuses on its destinations - in this case, Khartoum

The airline's old creative

The budget airline has dropped the controversial characters created by Dubai-based advertising agency Face to Face and has opted instead for ads that focus more directly on the destinations it flies to.

The new campaign comes four months after head of marketing, Duncan Osborne, suddenly quit Air Arabia to return to the UK and just 12 months after a previous 'fly and win' campaign was branded a "total disaster" by finance director Don Hubbard.

Hubbard said that the 'fly and win' campaign had placed too much emphasis on prizes rather than the prices that were available to passengers.

He also said that the cash prizes were not big enough to attract enough interest in the promotion.

The new marketing campaign, which is running in the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia, has been created by Sharjah-based full-service agency Red Marketing and Communications.

The airline has hired Bates PanGulf in Dubai to handle its public relations and says that it is stepping up its marketing efforts in India, Egypt, Turkey and Syria.

Kyle Haywood, commercial director of Air Arabia, told Campaign that the airline's marketing message was still price-led and that the only difference was the tactical execution.

He said: "The previous character campaign was originally implemented as a tactical price campaign, which would run the course of the seasonal schedules.

"The character campaign has reached its shelf life, and it was timely to implement a new creative with this seasons low-fare offers."

Haywood said that low prices would continue to remain as the airline's core message, but that it was being supported by a "destination association" aspect, which profiles Air Arabia's 27 destinations. "The creative allows flexibility to communicate a unique feature - sometimes not the obvious ones - in each destination," Haywood said.

ETIHAD Airways Campaign

Etihad Airways gets into the campaign act. Though looks like they didn't have a budget for a photo shoot.

Air Arabia Campaign

KT, 17Sep06

Update KT, 10Sep06

Update KT, 7Sep06

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KT, 30Aug06

KT, 28Aug06

Air Arabia fares are attractive enough. Still haven't figured out how the rates are calculated.
Anybody here have experienced Air Arabia services? Please leave a comment.