Thursday 22 January 2009

Talk to Colin

On the Greenpeace website, Christian's blog has a few laughs at the expense of an advert from Heathrow owner BAA.
Describing Heathrow expansion as "modernisation" is just the latest flavour of BAA spin. In particular, the villagers of Sipson who are facing the demolition of their village might well be feeling quite modern enough. I'm not sure how comforting they're going to find Colin's assertion that BAA will "seek to build strong links with our neighbours, particularly those in Sipson". Perhaps he thinks building "powerful and effective partnerships" with your neighbours means getting them to demolish their own houses?
The blog says that the address given in the advert talktocolinmatthews@baa.com is that of BAA chief executive Colin Matthews. I would think that highly unlikely. Surely it's just links to a PR team. But why don't they just say his email is colinmatthews@baa.com? Perhaps because it is...

3 comments:

Tim said...

"Surely it's just links to a PR team."

In my experience it doesn't link to anyone !

It just sends back a message :

"Thank you for contacting me about Heathrow's third runway. Your views are
very important and I will ensure one of my team respond to your email as
soon as possible."

You may ask in what sense he means that he "will ensure".
Or what is his time frame for "as soon as possible"

My talk from 22nd January remains unlistened to !

Tim said...

"Surely it's just links to a PR team."

In my experience it doesn't link to anyone !

It just sends back a message :

"Thank you for contacting me about Heathrow's third runway. Your views are
very important and I will ensure one of my team respond to your email as
soon as possible."

You may ask in what sense he means that he "will ensure".
Or what is his time frame for "as soon as possible"

My talk from 22nd January remains unlistened to !

Tim said...

Colin got Cheryl to reply on 9th March:

Dear Mr Henderson

I am so sorry for the delay in responding to your email to Colin Matthews.
I am trying to get some information from colleagues and am chasing them up.
I will write back as soon as I can.

Kind regards