Royal Jordanian - Travel to the U.S. While You Still Can

Royal Jordanian - Travel to the U.S. While You Still Can

Although many carriers around the world poked fun at this year’s bruising, often farcical U.S. presidential election, few were as darkly funny and hard-hitting as the Election Day promotion run by Royal Jordanian Airlines.

The official flag carrier of Jordan, the Amman-based carrier offered discounted fares in both their Crown and Economy Class on flights from Jordan to popular U.S. destinations like Chicago, Detroit and New York City, while cheekily urging Muslim passengers to “Travel to the U.S. while you’re still allowed to...just in case he wins.”

Playing on President Elect Donald Trump’s controversial campaign promise to ban all Muslims from entering the United States – Trump has since softened his tone a bit to a policy of something he calls “extreme vetting” – the campaign generated close to 14,000 shares and likes on the airline’s Facebook page with more than 2.3K overwhelmingly positive comments to date.

And like President Elect Trump himself, Royal Jordanian’s highly unusual ad campaign made headlines around the world on Election Day and beyond and has been written up everywhere from Business Insider UK to the digitally native news outlet Quartz and even NBC News .

On Twitter, where hilarious, Muslimgenerated tweets like those bearing the humorous hashtag #MuslimsReportStuff went viral in the last few weeks of the election, Royal Jordanian’s original tweet about the promotion has already been favorited 2.7K times and retweeted a whopping 4.7K times in less than a month. And those are numbers that even President Elect Trump would deem tweet-worthy!