So what am I doing?!
Why watching the Eurovision of course!
And at the same time I'm watching classic Aer Lingus ads on YouTube.....they don't make them like they used to.....
You've got to love everything about this ad. From the beautiful instrumental version of "True Colours" to all of the varied characters representative of life.
I had to smile to myself at the "runner". A long while ago, before I started my career as a librarian, I worked for Aer Lingus as a boarding agent. Whenever, we had a passenger who had a checked in late, we would receive a call from check in with an update for us. They would tell us that a passenger was on their way and to look out for them before we closed the gate - the passenger would have been told they might make the flight if they could RUN. We would then refer to this passenger as a "runner". As in we might say to the gate agent "we are all boarded, bar a runner who we are giving 1 more minute to get here before we close". Of course a runner would generally not have checked in bags because the check in desk wouldn't let them check in if they had bags because they might make it if they ran but their bags would not. Given that it was over twenty years ago when I worked for this airline, the majority of people checked in bags because of course at that time baggage was not charged for. So it was a rarity for people not to have checked bags - except for, of course, business people heading over on an early flight to London with a return that evening.
So I really related to the Cabin Crew member who gave a great big smile when she saw the runner. As a boarding agent, I would have given the passenger a great big smile like that when I saw them run up to the podium!
