“US Airways tweets graphic photo of nude woman to customers, then apologizes,” the New York Daily News reports:
“Inappropriate” doesn’t begin to cover it.
A shockingly graphic tweet by U.S. Airways featuring a woman and an airplane has led to an investigation and red-faced apology by the airline.
A photo of a naked woman lying exposed on a bed with a toy plane between her legs was publicly shared by the airline late Monday afternoon while responding to disgruntled customers who were angry about a recent flight delay.
The extremely graphic image sent to one Twitter user came with the caption: “We welcome feedback, Elle. If your travel is complete, you can detail it here for review and follow-up.”
Instead of a link matching that description, however, it was a link to the photo.
Twitchy of course has a round-up of reactions to US Airways’ disastrous tweet, and a blacked-out version of the photo itself. And note the airline’s gobbledygook response:
US Airways doesn’t understand how twitter works and apparently thinks no one else does either http://t.co/ZY4yaMQBfK pic.twitter.com/Gs7cACKQGM
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 14, 2014
As author Kim Harrington tweets, “No matter how bad of a day at work you’re having, at least you don’t run the US Airways twitter account. That person is having a worse day.”
Update: NSFW version online at the Frisky.com. Repeat: Not. Safe. For. Work. Click at your own risk to employment and/or sanity.
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