1984 United Airlines Commercial #5

[rrz518]

Love the DC-10 at the end....

[DrJekyll38]

The 80's was a golden age for advertising as well. Commercials beck then were so much more creative, funny, and very often touching, like this one. These days you're lucky if the commercials don't feature a complaining turtle or a fool claiming to be the greatest salesman, and "I'm Lovin' It" is a lousy McD's slogan compared to "You Deserve A Break Today"!

The best we have these days is FLO from Progressive, the Muppets doing Habitat For Humanity with W.D.W., and the E*Trade Babies.

[MyleneJ]

You know, not all the blame rests with the airlines. They Still compete in service standards, United's still a great example of that. The problem is people want all the service of a 4 Star cruise for the price of a greyhound ticket, Airlines are still a business and to keep flying they need money, Cuts have to come from somewhere if you want your 80 dollar Orbitz fare.

[nathanfishing3000]

1980`s very nice peopole careing loveing 2010 hate full gangsters it sucks my city have alot of gun shots and robery

[aviationnutsv]

Airline CEO have lost there way I never would have saw this coming no more Northwest no more TWA its sad. Greed has destory the airline industry they may make money but they have piss off there employees and pass.

[nathanfishing3000]

in 1932 it was nice peopole and nice evry one but now in 2010 sucks

[reckz420]

80s was perhaps the best era of aviation in America, the service standard as well as technological innovations had made flying a real joyful experience, airports were expanding, airlines were competing to offer best of the class services. Then started the era of phfffff 90s, the mergers, acquisitions, failures and a downward spiral of on-board service standard. Now its only a bit better than using greyhound buses.

[juantrippe82]

@reckz420 I believe your correct. It started to peak around the 1980's.

[gameforumusage]

watching this makes me have tears in my eyes

[Lauraloos1981]

one of my friends works for United in Denver. he works in the offices. his boss runs him up the wall

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

*Why do we love flying?

*Why do we enjoy air travel?

*What do we enjoy most in the sky?

THANK YOU IN ADVNACE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[dm7b5]

united breaks guitars

[DavidYakima]

Good video, I remember this one!!! LA, 1984..the best!!!

David

[SodomGaMorgan]

im 27 and even i remember when flying was nice

[flyingmama]

Thanks for the video, it is very touching...

It's a shame that airline industry was swallowed by corpated greed, when the bad time comes, instead of sacraficing across the board in the company, they had employees take several rounds of pay cut, extend working hours ( in my case maximun of 14.5 to 18.5 hours per day) cut benefits and lose pension; while the CEO took 40 millions pay along with upper managements taking enomous amount of bonuses, it was very hard to swallow for the employees.

[juantrippe82]

@flyingmama Agreed, the North American aviation industry is a joke.

[isuflyboy07]

i wonder how the good ole times are supposed to happen...... good luck we are all counting on you

[flyingmama]

isuflyboy07

Thank you for the kind words. Such kind and supportive encouragement is the motivation that keeps us going...

[taurean7]

Gotta love it: 747 shown as the "bigger United plane," yet the windows are clearly those of a DC-10.

[SodomGaMorgan]

how can u tell?

[taurean7]

Size and shape of the windows (rounder) as well as the side paneling. The DC-10 and MD-11 cabin windows are much larger than those of the 747. It may seem hard to tell the difference but it is actually quite noticeable if you are familiar with such subtle nuances of aviation...

[SodomGaMorgan]

oh for sure... i am with some aircraft features.. but being 27, my time spent on DC's has been limited... not as many anymore... i figured the window size gave it away... i did notice that they were pretty large compaired to boeing after ur comment..

[pcmiler2000]

I miss the old days....things suppose to get better, but gets worse instead....

[flyuni922]

nice video. cute ending

[petey8887]

this is a great commercial! thanks for uploading it

[KantaAce]

Great Video