WestJet released an ad on its Instagram account following the results of the recently concluded United States Presidential election. While experts on both sides of the political aisle are busy analyzing the outcome of the race, a major event like this also sometimes attracts cheeky ads and memes, with WestJet’s attempt as one example. WestJet releases a post-election ad The second-largest airline in Canada, WestJet , posted a social media ad to capitalize on a popular trend—this time, the US Presidential election.
Republican Party candidate and former President Donald Trump beat Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris to be the president-elect of the US. An event of this magnitude not only invites heavy media attention from across the world but also memes and satire. And WestJet’s latest ad (pictured below) alludes to the recent surge in the online search for ‘moving to Canada’ after the latest election result.
The ad itself was short-lived and was removed by WestJet at 22:00 ET at night, but not before it attracted some funny responses from readers. The airline said that it only ran it in a few cities in the United States. In a statement to a Canadian travel website called Open Jaw , WestJet said, “We can confirm that the WestJet ad in question was digitally distributed in five cities across California in the lead-up to the U.
S. presidential election. The ad campaign expired across all digital platforms by 10 p.
m. ET last night.” Tongue-in-cheek ads WestJet is n.
