Qatar Airways promotes bullfights
Qatar Airways,
Thailand branch is advertising flights to Madrid, Spain, using a photo
of a bullfight.
It's outrageous that any flight company promotes bullfights but it was
unexpectable that an airline from the Emirates would use such publicity.
Please send protest emails to the Qatar Airways asking them to withdraw
that publicity and explain to them that bullfights are not the image of
Spain, by the contrary, that image is tarnishing Spain all over the world.
They are welcome to advertise their flights to Spain using the beautiful
landscape, the beaches,etc, but not animal torture that is condemned by
the majority of the Spanish people.
Dear Mr. Salam Al Shawa,
I have learnt of an advertisement in which Qatar Airways promotes its
flights between Bangkok and Madrid using a photo of a bullfight.
I am not aware if this is the policy of your company and I feel outraged.
Bullfights are disgusting spectacles where 6 bulls are tortured to death
and where the horses used also suffer injuries, sometimes fatal.
Promoting your flights using this kind of publicity not only stains
your image as well as enforces the popular misconception of Spain as
a country steeped in bullfights.
Please be aware that the majority of the Spanish people are opposed
to bullfights and fight to end this barbarity.
I would like you to inform me if being accomplice to this barbarity
is the policy of your company or just your Thailand branch. In either
case I would strongly urge you to have this marketing campaign reconsidered
and to remove this national stereotyping.
I look forward to your early reply.
Yours sincerely,
Name/Country
Salam Al Shawa
Senior Manager Marketing & Communications, Qatar Airways
Qatar
Tel: +974 – 4496956, Fax: +974 - 4620132
qrmedia@qatarairways.com.qa
Qatar Airways
infodesk@qatarairways.com.qa
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http://www.qatarairways.com/index.php?contactus
Qatar Airways
21st Flr, P.S. Tower 36/74
Sukhumvit 21 Road (asoke)
Klongtoey-Nua, Wattana
Bangkok 10110,
Thailand
holidays@qatarairways.com.qa
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Al Bawaba
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To:
qrmedia@qatarairways.com.qa,infodesk@qatarairways.com.qa,
holidays@qatarairways.com.qa
CC:
qna@qatar.net.qa,alwatan@qatar.net.qa,editor@gulf-times.com,
editor@thepeninsulaqatar.com,markgattysaunt@albawaba.com,
campaigns@iwab.org
Source: International Movement Against Bullfights www.iwab.org