Posted on 01/10/2025 12:18:31 PM PST by DFG
A Pakistan Airlines advert has come under fire for appearing to show a jet flying into the Eiffel Tower as the company resumes its Europe flights following a four-year safety ban.
Pakistan's national airline, which was banned from flying to the UK, US and EU in 2020, posted an image on social media showing a plane and the monument against the French flag, alongside the caption: 'Paris, we're coming today.'
But online critics blasted Pakistan International Airline's (PIA) advert, claiming it appears to show the jet heading straight for the Paris landmark.
Omar R Quraishi, a Pakistani PR expert and former adviser to politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, branded the campaign 'completely tone deaf'.
He wrote on X: 'Did the idiot who designed this graphic not see a PIA plane heading for the Eiffel Tower? One of Europe's iconic landmarks. Do they not know about the 9/11 tragedy – which used planes to attack buildings? Did they not think that this would be perceived in similar fashion?'
Another baffled X user wrote: 'Ahahha did no one learn product placement?! PIA, this doesn't look like what you think it looks like!'.
One more added: 'PIA designer selected this one over other designs. How bad [were those] other designs?'
A fourth said: 'No way the official page thought this was a good idea. Fire your marketing department'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Apropos..................
Looks like an internal planning report somehow got made public.
Sounds like a threat.
Pakistan Airlines. Now making flights to Paris.
Well, actually stopping at the Eiffel Tower.
The UK, US and EU don’t have the backbone to deal with the terrorists.
This is eerie. Almost guarantees what some enterprising terrorist will be targeting in the not so distant future.
Well, it’s not like Pakistan hid
09/11/01 terrorist Osama bin Laden...
Oh, wait.....
Direct flights to the Michelin 2 star restaurant in the Eiffel tower.
lolol
That was intentional. Now they play dumb.
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