Photo: Twitter / Cathay Pacific
Spelling mistakes happen to the best of us. Whether we do them in texts, official emails or some other type of writing, we do do them.
Still, you’d think something this big wouldn’t go by unnoticed. When you’re one of the biggest airlines in the world, as the Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is, and you have hundreds of people working on a single task, you’d think a typo couldn’t be possible.
Yet it happened, earning the company the title of “the airline that gives no Fs.” And that’s because it doesn’t, literally.
As you can see in the photo attached to this article and the tweet at the bottom of the page, one of the company’s jets at the Hong Kong International Airport read “Cathay Paciic.” Eagle-eyed passengers saw it, took photos of it and then, as was to be expected, took to social media to crack jokes about it.
Someone from the company was eventually forced to take to Twitter as well to own the typo and tell those jokesters that the bird was going back to the shop. “Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!,” Cathay says.
While the company makes it sound as if this was an honest mistake, industry insiders whisper that the spacing is the tell-tale sign that it wasn’t.
“The spacing is too on-point for a mishap,” an engineer for Haeco, a sister company of the airline, is cited as saying by the BBC. “There should be a blank gap in between letters if it was a real mistake I think.”
Whether someone did this on purpose or not is besides the point. The idea is that Twitter is having a blast with it, with users suggesting all kinds of ways of fixing the typo, from sticking “^F” underneath the writing, to embracing the typo with a new company motto.
Yet it happened, earning the company the title of “the airline that gives no Fs.” And that’s because it doesn’t, literally.
As you can see in the photo attached to this article and the tweet at the bottom of the page, one of the company’s jets at the Hong Kong International Airport read “Cathay Paciic.” Eagle-eyed passengers saw it, took photos of it and then, as was to be expected, took to social media to crack jokes about it.
Someone from the company was eventually forced to take to Twitter as well to own the typo and tell those jokesters that the bird was going back to the shop. “Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!,” Cathay says.
While the company makes it sound as if this was an honest mistake, industry insiders whisper that the spacing is the tell-tale sign that it wasn’t.
“The spacing is too on-point for a mishap,” an engineer for Haeco, a sister company of the airline, is cited as saying by the BBC. “There should be a blank gap in between letters if it was a real mistake I think.”
Whether someone did this on purpose or not is besides the point. The idea is that Twitter is having a blast with it, with users suggesting all kinds of ways of fixing the typo, from sticking “^F” underneath the writing, to embracing the typo with a new company motto.
Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!
— Cathay Pacific (@cathaypacific) September 19, 2018
(Source: HKADB) pic.twitter.com/20SRQpKXET
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