01-21-2008
07:46 PM
8 Loves
I am one of the lucky Southwest Airlines Marketing Employees who was able to pass out hats, ice scrapers, $52.80 coupons, and a few round trip airline tickets to the people of Denver a couple of weeks ago.
It was such a fun experience to walk through the city streets of Denver, exploring the amazing city, and making the day of local Denverites. My favorite giveaway experience was a young bride-to-be who came running for four blocks in search of the red Southwest fleeces that she heard were giving away discounts. We had just run out of coupons and had one Southwest round trip ticket left. She was so excited to hear this and proceeded to jump up and down, saying that she would do anything to be the recipient of this ticket. Being in marketing, of course, we asked her to do something special to earn the ticket. She announced that Southwest was the only way to fly and she started to sing the "Hokey Pokey." We joined in and shook our feet all around as she sang. When the ticket was presented to her, she got tears in her eyes and told us she was going to use the ticket to bring her cousin (who just lost her job) to her wedding. She had been looking into purchasing bus fair from Philadelphia, but that had proven to be too expensive. Soon we were all crying and hugging. It was such an awarding experience to be able to make her day not only on that day, but also on her wedding day!
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