There is no doubt last year was a tough year for Samsung, with all the troubles with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones, as well as the aviation community having to ban the phone from flights given their unsafe track record.
Now, as if to poke a thumb at the incident, Samsung decided it was a good idea to give out the recently released Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Phone to a whole plane full of passengers. And they did shove out a cart full of phones into the galley.
So 200 passengers on Iberia’s flight 0513 between La Coruña to Madrid Barajas in Spain got a free phone each as they flew on this lucky flight. The promotion was organised by Samsung Spain, and Samsung even made a video about it.
Of course, Iberia had their own video as well.
¡Hay selfies que rebosan sonrisas! Mucha emoción entregando los #Note8abordo a todos nuestros clientes del IB0513 de hoy ✈️📱 @SamsungEspana pic.twitter.com/KYmS0tZYp2
— Iberia (@Iberia) October 23, 2017
Of course, everyone was happy being richer with a top of the line phone!
Happy enough to pose for a plane-group-selfie!
Thank goodness this was not distributed amongst a double aisle plane or an A380, otherwise, the marketing with this picture would have gone all wrong!
Bravo Samsung, on each phone, said,
A year ago we asked you to turn it off, we welcome you today on board.
They indeed tweeted later,
At Samsung, when we fall, we not only rise back up – we learn to fly!
I love the humour of the situation if nothing else, and I just wonder why do these things happen to other people while I still have to buy my phones, that too, without a contract! 😉
Samsung, I doff my hat to you for thumbing your own nose to show you’re back!
I’m an iPhone user but this is pretty damn cool!
Is this for Friday the 13th or Halloween? A plane full of Samsungs would scare me immensely given their history of batteries catching fire on planes.
That’s a pretty cool marketing stunt.