I have been busy as of late & I recently travelled to Scotland as of last month (which I will talk about it on my blog).
I want to tell you about the whole free flight ticket & holiday voucher debacle & why I felt deceived by both airlines: EasyJet and Cathay Pacific.
Let’s start with Cathay Pacific.
My criticism on Cathay Pacific
Hello Hong Kong 2023 campaign video
Here’s my rant. What a flipping joke. ðŸ‡ðŸ‡°✈️🎟
On Tuesday 9th May 2023 (few weeks ago), I was not in a happy mood. The promotion of “free Hong Kong air tickets” & that I regretted for feeling foolish for participating the competition. when the free flight ticket to Hong Kong was opened (9th May which was the date of opening date) on 9am, promoted by the “Hello Hong Kong” campaign, Cathay Pacific & the Hong Kong govt (to persuade tourists from all parts of the world to visit HK given for the fact that Hong Kong had suffered financially in the last couple of years due to the Covid 19 pandemic and strict lockdown measures. Which that it affected the tourism sector & HK’s economy), myself and my brother’s carer (who used to live in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1997), we went on the website (Cathay Pacific) & we did tried to participate in the competition in the chance fo win the free aeroplane ticket to HK.
Unfortunately, I wasted 2 hours of waiting in the online queue for my turn to answer the questions (anything related about Hong Kong or Hong Kongse airline Cathay Pacific = national carrier) as I kept on checking on my phone & the computer. Even myself and my disabled brother’s carer already know that there were people who were also in the queue of wanting to win the free air ticket to Hong Kong as well. After all, all I saw was “Thank You For Your Support. All tickets from the Cathay Pacific “World of Winner” ticket offers online campaign in United Kingdom has been awarded”.
My reaction was like “unbelievable”!!! I even read the tweets on Twitter about people campaigning that Cathay Pacific have deceived anybody who do wish to visit Hong Kong for holiday/vacation leisure purposes. Until to now, they (Cathay Pacific) haven’t even explained properly as to why they closed the competition on the day it was opened & closed it within two hours later. As if many people here in the UK all wanted on the website, trying to win & some of them had won it (which I do not believe that is the case). Especially the end date was scheduled from Tuesday 9th May to 15th May (Monday 15th May).
So yeah, another airline deceived me. Cathay Pacific. Just like EasyJet (which I will talk about it on my blog in separate paragraph). Even I do not have any actual plans to visit Hong Kong anytime soon (knowing it’s not guaranteed whether I really go there or not) & that I was not disheartened that i didn’t win. I was not impressed of how Cathay Pacific conducted the free plane tickets to Hong Kong campaign in an awful way. That is not a good business marketing & not good PR. For that myself and my brother’s carer were not happy about it at all. Especially when we & everyone else in the UK were taken for fools. Feeling deceived. There were no other issues in other country including Asian nations with the same problem but yet, it only happens to the UK. It’s unbelievable. How stupid is Cathay Pacific.
Which brings me to EasyJet. British low cost airline. Which I once flow with them to Barcelona, Spain in summer of 2018
My criticism on EasyJet
I want to tell you something I have been mislead by EasyJet.
All that free holiday voucher that I won in April last year. Promoted by Doritos and Walkers crisps both online & on TV for advertisement. It is nothing but a trick.
I will reiterate by saying once again that I do not like being mislead. Especially for my experience when I was victimised of fraud and scam 7 times. Given nowadays I am very aware of misinformation & some things that may be worth interesting but really nothing but a pie in the sky.
Here’s last year EasyJet 2022 TV advert promoted by Doritos and Walkers crisps.
I am already starting to regret winning the EasyJet holiday voucher in April last year promoted by Doritos and Walkers crisps which was originally a package holiday holiday as I first originally thought. It turns out it is a free holiday voucher for flights.
I even tried entering the code many times. Even without a line - it shows it is not "valid".
From expensive package holiday prices for hotel to not allowing me to enter the code for me to book the flights from London Luton to Lisbon.
I might as well not bother with this anymore. Holiday voucher thingy & I am glad i didn’t continue to pursue it.
At least I can still try to book flights to Lisbon, Portugal at anytime before at least the end of summer. Even my dad noticed when I was struggling to find a decent hotel prices on EasyJet app regarding package holiday.
So that is my criticisms on EasyJet & Cathay Pacific.
My conclusion
In conclusion: I said before and I will say it. I do not like being mislead. Especially for my own experiences when I was victimised of scam and fraud 7 times. It’s second time airline deceived me regarding my interest of going on holiday. First was EasyJet for my travel interest to visit Portugal and now Cathay Pacific for my travel to interest visit HK (despite not having any current plans to visit there).