Campaign details
Brand: Air CanadaAdvertiser: Air CanadaAgency: J. Walter Thompson
Summary
With increasing competition from low-cost transatlantic airlines, Air Canada faced a battle to fill planes to Canada and the USA – particularly in the winter months, when passenger numbers were low.
Rather than competing with its rivals on their own terms, Air Canada took a radical approach, #coolnotcold, based around audience insight.
Realising its audience, liberal, cosmopolitan London 'travellers', were in many ways 'culturally Canadian,' they built a campaign that applied a 'Canadian traveller' attitude to its destinations.
Sales value rocketed to 115% above...