Who In The Hell...Sends Out The E-mail Offers For Airtran?

Hi everyone, I'm Micah. I was supposed to be contributing to this blog all along, but, well, I'm pretty difficult to motivate. You might say to Michael, the blog's creator, "Who in the hell thought Micah would contribute on a consistent enough basis to include him on this project?"

Well, I may not post every week (or even every year, we'll see how it goes), but when I saw this today, I knew it was time to go to work.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I call your attention to a "Net Escapes" email I received from AirTran Airways this evening. While I can't reprint for you the actual email itself, I can point you in the direction of the page they built for it on the AirTran website. Here's a screen capture of the promotion:

I noticed, in perusing this email, that one of the "8 Crazy Adventures" recommended by AirTran is a trip to Houston for the Houston Hot Sauce Festival, as seen here:

Hot Sauce Festival? In Houston? Count me in!

Enthused by the prospect of attending such an event (not really), and wanting to show my friend Goetz (who is from Houston) what a good time he was most likely in for by participating in said festival, I clicked through the link so I could give him some of the highlights.

To my (immense) amusement, here is the page to which I was brought:


Oops! No amateur salsa dancing competitions for Goetz!

Just to clarify, AirTran scoured the nation for the 8 choicest festivals to highlight to the millions of travelers who fly their airline - for a one-day sale no less - and 12.5% of those festivals is no more.

I guess my question is this - who the hell is sending out the email offers for AirTran?

Whoever it is, they might want to pay a little closer attention to detail next time...