Want to Fly on the Air France Inaugural A380 Flight? Oui Oui!

Air France has just announced details of their plans to offer seats on the inaugural A380 flight from Paris to JFK and, a day later, JFK back to CDG. The 1st flight (which is really the inaugural flight) leaves Paris CDG on November 20th with the return from JFK (after some crew rest and photo ops, no doubt) on November 21st.

They are auctioning 380 seats - unclear what will happen to the other 158 seats but one would assume that press, dignitaries and other various hangers-on will fill them.

Pick your seat and get out your wallet!

All details can be found here.

YouTube monetization gone awry - Qantas advertises on footage of US Airways landing in the Hudson

Well, the WSJ is reporting that finally video has emerged showing the harrowing and heroic landing of US Airways flight1549 ditching in the Hudson River last week.

http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2009/01/23/us-airways-jet-crash-hudson-landing-videos//

The videos are still quite grainy and it is hard to see the actual landing sequence but better than nothing.

However, what is shocking is the YouTube "overlay" ad from Qantas advertising the new Airbus A380! Its probably not the kind of display Qantas was looking for when they purchased the "airbus" keyword. The USAirways flight was an Airbus A320 so its not hard to see how the mash-up occurred but this example should give e-marketers plenty to think about when designing ad campaigns.