Comments on: SkyHigh Airlines

SkyHigh Airlines

Dome-O-Rama — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:09:23 -0800

SkyHigh Airlines is one of the funniest, most well done and fleshed out parody sites I've seen on the web. Try everything, plan a trip (notice the luxurious ports of call they fly into), track your lost luggage - oh hell, just click everything, you'll be glad you did. Even the Chairman's letter is funny.

By: UKnowForKids

UKnowForKids — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:18:40 -0800

Funny site. But why do they keep pimping out Alaska Airlines?

By: Dipsomaniac

Dipsomaniac — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:34:14 -0800

Funny site. But why do they keep pimping out Alaska Airlines? whois skyhighairlines.com Organization: Alaska Airlines Dean DuVall P.O. Box 68900 Seattle, wa 98168 US That's probably why.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:48:10 -0800

It comes complete with fake radio advertisements, which I've been hearing for the past week. They get interrupted midway through with an ad for Alaska.

By: matteo

matteo — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:55:56 -0800

ViralFilter

By: bedhead

bedhead — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:59:38 -0800

This is part of Alaska Air's latest marketing campaign. They also have fake TV ads for "SkyHigh Airlines" that feature things like passengers being shoved into bench seats. The "ads" are interrupted midway with an ad for Alaska Air, much like the radio ads jonson mentioned. And yeah, what matteo said.

By: dg

dg — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:18:22 -0800

At least their advertising is entertaining, unlike 99.9% of advertising.

By: bedhead

bedhead — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:34:31 -0800

True, dg. Especially the taglines - "A commitment to mediocrity" and "The relentless pursuit of adequacy" are two of my favorites.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:58:18 -0800

As a web designer, I would like to say that designing this site would be my dream job. If there are any big clients who want to hire me to make a hilarious parody site for their viral ad campaign -- yo! I am yo man!

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:34:20 -0800

I dunno, I tried reading it. I really did. It seemed awfully flat to me. But, no accounting for taste.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:58:03 -0800

Introducing SkyHigh Airlines Super Scrimper Fares. You'll be whisked away in intermittent air-conditioned comfort at an altitude of eight feet and speeds approaching 60 miles per hour in one of our diesel "Flightless Eagle Coaches." Yes, buses! Very, very good stuff. I love how all of the Super Scrimper Fares are routed through Elko, NV. And after seeing two off-site links to Alaska, I had a strong hunch that SkyHigh was all part of an ad campaign. A very good one, I believe. Way better than any "Dude yer gettin a Dell" crap-fest.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:18:07 -0800

I love this. I wish I could fly somewhere on Alaska Air just to thank them for the laugh.

By: Dome-O-Rama

Dome-O-Rama — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:26:12 -0800

When you send in a suggestion, the text changes to: "I'm not mad at you people anymore for losing my bags. Yes, you sent three of my suitcases to three separate corners of the world, but I now realize that everyone makes mistakes and I should be more forgiving. Have a wonderful day." Fab-u-lous. I didn't know they were attached to Alaska, hell I didn't know Alaska had an airlines... but yeah this is a much better campaign than the viral buddy lee campaign which got a lot more 'press'. I'm a web designer too and yeah I'd kill my mother for a job like that, hell at this point, ANY job.

By: jennak

jennak — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:39:52 -0800

I think SkyHigh's new SodaSack technology is a great idea! An air sickness bag and a beverage dispenser IN ONE?! Pure genius. You guys did it again.

By: vito90

vito90 — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:24:05 -0800

SkyHigh Airlines is not a new concept, I remember television ads in the Seattle area well over a decade ago that were parodies of crappy airlines. Sky High Airlines! Sky High Airlines! Climb aboard, Sky High Airlines! We've got our heads in the sky! Anybody else remember?

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:46:06 -0800

my, a lot of virals hit the front page here lately, I'm actually suprised nobody's yelled "viralfilter" yet. ;) Though I like the employee of the month.. hehe.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:53:34 -0800

I'm actually suprised nobody's yelled "viralfilter" yet. Be surprised no longer.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:03:51 -0800

heh, my bad. If anyone is interested the ads are made by Wong Doody - commercials in this campaign started airing 22 of Sept.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:14:11 -0800

Wow...I'm amazed this is still here. I thought for sure it would have been pulled by this morning. I mean, sure...it's a cute site...as advertising goes...but allowing this opens the door for all kinds of viral marketing crap.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:30:20 -0800

Thank you Dejah =)

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:04:29 -0800

Vote for Howard Dean!

By: spacewaitress

spacewaitress — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:48:06 -0800

I'm glad it was posted here; I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. And I love the aging DC-10 they have pictured on the front page. Reminds me of old times. Sigh.

By: triv

triv — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:56:30 -0800

it is viral, but not in the classic pepsi blue fashion. i'm glad it was posted too because without the wonderful people here at mefi telling me, i would have taken it as a parody site. does that make me an advertisers dream? then so be it.