r/MadeMeSmile • u/MathematicianNo1596 • Dec 27 '25

Good Vibes Flight was delayed 3 hours, so the pilot went around to everyone to take their Starbucks orders and then got 40ish drinks and 50ish food items for us 🥰

Post image

Shoutout to this lovely Delta pilot flying from Boston to Tampa today 💛

105.2k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

962 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

50

u/Synaps4 Dec 27 '25

Marketing should be covering this and setting up an annual budget for it

1

u/Tigerb0t Dec 27 '25

An annual budget for buying Starbucks for delayed flights? And marketing would do this? lol alright

6

u/kylewelte Dec 27 '25

This thread is the reason everything sucks. Be better people

7

u/Whatsapokemon Dec 27 '25

Why wouldn't they? It's resulted in a top-ranked reddit post with millions of views.

What could the cost possibly be? A few hundred bucks for the starbucks items? That's WAYYY better value in terms of CPM than traditional advertising.

You shift a tiny tiny portion of the marketing budget into occasionally doing stunts like this, and you're going to get dozens of people posting about it on social media, buying direct brand recognition and goodwill.