Airline Marketing Monthly, August 2019

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Air Asia - Campaign song

song, Bahagia Bersama

that it actually ends up

Branson and Air Asia’s

(Happy Together).

annoying passengers.

Gamaliel is an up and

Last year, we wrote about

coming Indonesian singer

British leisure airline Jet2,

with several hundred

whose theme song is

thousand social media

‘Hold my Hand’ by Jess

followers. The track that

Glynne. Coverage in the

he recorded for the airline

UK press claimed that the

can be listened to on

song had been playing

various music streaming

on repeat so many times

Tony Fernandes’ music

services such as Spotify

that passengers were

background was

and Apple Music.

threatening to stop flying

Tony Fernandes have in common? Other than being larger than life characters who both started their own airline, both were in the music business, working for record labels.

highlighted by Air Asia, when it unveiled its new brand ambassador for Indonesia, singer Gamaliél, who also composed the airline’s new campaign

39.

It is also being played

the airline.

inside all AirAsia Indonesia

The story even made the

flights. On that point, the

Australian media with

airline needs to watch out

News.com.au reporting

that the song isn’t being

that “this song is driving

overplayed to the extent

people crazy on flights.”

Airline Marketing Monthly | August 2019

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