This Valentine’s Day, get away from your daily humdrum and let your love shine! British Airways is delighted to introduce a big surprise for all you lovebirds that is sure to leave you love-struck! British Airways launches a heart-warming online interactive campaign, ‘Go Further to Get Closer’ today on Valentine’s Day. The film narrates the story of Sumeet Gupta and how British Airways helped him surprise his wife Chetna by giving them an opportunity to escape from daily intrusions and get closer to each other. ‘Go Further to Get Closer’ demonstrates British Airways’ marketing strategy for India that focuses on introducing India specific initiatives to enable the international premium airline create an emotional and meaningful connection with the younger audience.
Christopher Fordyce, Regional Commercial Manager, South Asia, British Airways, said “We have been flying to India for around 85 years and stand out for our innovative techniques to engage with our customers. We, at British Airways, are pleased to launch our online film ‘Go Further to Get Closer’ to help deepen relationship with our younger audience in India. With Internet base growing at the rate of approximately 28 percent year-on-year in India, we realise that digital and social media are crucial platforms to engage with the Indian audiences, especially the youth.
“The essence of ‘Go Further to Get Closer’ lies within the dissipating love and passion in the relationship; a loss affecting personal lives of people. The work pressure and tech-savvy lifestyle leading to communication gap and the only solution being – a getaway to a new destination. Our film focusses on spending quality time with your partner and strengthening the love bond whilst discovering a new place and enjoying your travelling experience with British Airways.”
The film has been produced by Ogilvy India and is based on the insight that young couples today have made work their top priority in life. This mind-set is taking a toll on their personal relationships as they are unable to spend enough quality time with their partners. This is especially true for young couples, who are surrounded with extended family for most of their young lives. For these couples, international travel provides great opportunities to spend quality time with their respective partners as not only are they away from work, but also from the daily intrusions of family and friends. They tend to discover a new facet of their companion, as they discover a new destination, leading to better bonding.
Sanjeev Jasani, Sr. Vice President, OgilvyOne Worldwide, New Delhi said, “British Airways will not just appeal to the minds but also the hearts of Indians. It will appeal to people across categories and tug at heart strings with its simple, slice of life story. The believability quotient is very high and this will make people relate very easily to it and help British Airways emerge as a brand with its finger on the pulse of India.”
Game on! To help young couples discover each other better, British Airways is launching ‘How close are you?’ quiz on its official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/britishairways). As part of this fun quiz, couples will be encouraged to answer lighthearted questions about their partner and tag him/her on their social circles. Three winning couples will bag a special return trip to London and a grand opportunity to rekindle their love and passion!
The film, directed by Vishal Punjabi of The Wedding Filmer, will goes live on British Airways’ official website ba.com/getcloser today on 14 February 2014, the Valentines’ Day and will be leveraged on British Airways’ social media channels including, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+.
To take its customer experience to the next level, British Airways has committed to invest more than £5 billion in its products and services until 2017. The investment will see British Airways’ customers benefiting from new aircraft, new World Traveller economy and World Traveller Plus premium economy cabins, a revamped First class and better lounges around British Airways’ network. Funds will also be allocated to improved catering and new technologies to make the travel experience more comfortable and convenient for customers on the ground and in the air.
