Two emails made my day yesterday.

First one was sent from SkyEurope and included this advertisment (among others):

FLIGHTS FOR FREE to Eastern Europe.

Don’t miss your chance and book your flight now:
100.000 flights for GBP/EUR 0!*

Hurry sale ends on Sunday!

Travel period: 1 December 2006 – 28 February 2007.

100.000 free flights. Excuse me? Oh I see, their banner on the main page says free seats. Very clever. Still doesn’t make much sense to me. Let me apply elementary maths here: 100.000 seats in 90 days means approximately 1111 seats a day. Looking at their fleet, it means 7-8 airplanes full of passengers flying for free (taxes and charges excluded) every day.

As I’m quite a curious guy sometimes, I searched for all flights in that period to Poprad/Tatras and Bratislava (from London), two of the cities included in this offer still displayed on the main page. Guess what. I haven’t found a single one for free. Check it for yourself if you want. Perhaps I’m mistaken and they meant Sunday in modified time dimension. I’m not surprised though, it’s just a part of their misleading advertising.

What I like here is the way they treat their customers. Sending them a crappy leaflet. With huge Send this special offer to your friend link. Viral marketing in action. Will I send it to my friends? They can bet I will. Along with this article.

A second email was sent from Air France & KLM informing me about new EU-legislation for hand baggage at all airports in the EU. Hilarious, really. Excerpt from the regulation:

If your purchase (in duty free) occurred in an airport located outside the European Union, and you are transferring to a European Union country, you will not be authorized to carry your purchases onto your next flight. They will be taken away from you.

How funny is that? I know, it’s not their fault. At least they send some useful information. SkyEurope sends only insulting spam.