I do. And this clip made me love them even more
Don’t you just love people spotting at the airport? Do you get emotional watching other people greeting each other ?
Thanks Renee
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I do. And this clip made me love them even more
Don’t you just love people spotting at the airport? Do you get emotional watching other people greeting each other ?
Thanks Renee
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This is great. I think you must not have a heart if you do not feel emotions at airports.
As has been said, I go there to pick someone up and I have tears in my eyes just watching the people around me being reunited, some good reasons some bad. I am about to travel and leave my partner for 10 weeks and already I am thinking how emotional it will be at the airport both departing and arriving!
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Awesome!
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haha.. we studied a whole bunch of t-mobile ads in marketing lectures .. lots of fun .. if anyone’s interested, they’re worthwhile to google
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This clip made me cry. I thought it was beautiful.
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AHHHHH! I CAN’T STAND FLASH MOBS! And that’s all this is, a fancy flash mob/publicity stunt. The word nauseating comes to mind.
I’ll at least give those involved credit for being musically talented.
However, I do love (subtle) people spotting at the airport, it makes me feel all warm inside.
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My husband and I had a long distance relationship for 2 years before we married. Airport hellos and goodbyes are such emotional times.
Far too many times I was sobbing while going through departure customs.
We had one rule, say goodbye once and never look back, that is too hard, you just want to run back…..
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I think I must have been studying for too long as I tried to connect with the above clip but I’m sorry to say personally I just found it super cheesy and lame..kinda like that Glee show..just my opinion, I know it sounds really mean. Anyway, I do like the sense of anticipation and emotion associated with airports.
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Just a quick question to any Mamamia music lovers out there.
Does anyone recognise the song that is at the 1.36 ish mark? “La la la la la la la la…” It’s a great song. But I just can’t remember its name!?!
Great clip Mia!
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the passenger by iggy pop
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thanks!
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i would kill someone if they did this to me coming off a long-haul flight!!!!
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Yes I always feel like shit when I fly too.
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totally agree! I am a mess when I get off a flight. All I want to do is get home and sleep.
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I have just moved OS to Asia for my husband’s job and that clip just made me start bawling – we travel so much these days that I am constantly saying hi and bye to friends and family that it can sometimes feel like the norm. That clip just made me miss my family and loved ones like crazy and I only wish it was me on my way home to see them all now. Hopefully the tears will stop soon – I am obviously getting soft at the grand old age of thirty!
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OHHH AIRPORTS. I was in a long term long distance relationship for 3 years. The relationship lasted 5yrs.
The airport became a beacon of extreme tears and angst. And also extreme joy. When we first spotted each other arriving… and when we were saying goodbye for another 8 weeks…. ohh it was so awful.
Still to this day if I stand in an aiport waiting area i get hugely emotional. And if I see one person showing emotion i get all welled up inside…
ahhhh boy.
hows that for some emotional airport baggage
haha pun intended
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Love it Mia- thanks for sharing the link… What a great viral ad…
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I used to work at a bar right at the international arrivals in Vancouver airport, Canada – and wow…not a day went by on shift when I didn’t shed a tear at an emotional greeting!
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Airports are happy and sad the same time. When you are arriving somewhere, that also means you are leaving some place behind. Train stations are the same. I can never think of these places as happy places alone. That being said, absolutely loved the clip. Also relevant at this time as I am going back to Pakistan to see my family, after 3 years. Kids are going with me and we will be away for 6 weeks or more. Hubby doesn’t wanna come along, his choice. He understandably is not jumping for joy at the moment. Bring on the holidays, I say! YAY
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I love it!
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It’s just a shame that it’s an ad – would’ve been nice if it’d been not-for-profit.
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Couldn’t agree more. I was smiling until the tagline appeared.
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god im just happy they were actually creatoive!
rather than shove offers down our throat that give me a headache. i’d much rather smile and have a brand try and get my attention this way!
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This is wonderful! I have shared it & watched it about 10 times & just keep sitting here grinning like a Cheshire cat. An excellent post – thanks Mama Mia you entertain & inform me x
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i love people watching at airports – loved ones greeting each other for the first time in ages – like the first scene in Love Actually where hugh grant is narrating about airports…
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Oh, how I love that scene. Just delightful.
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i pick up my partner from the airport every fortnight as he’s a fly-in fly-out mine worker. every time i drive there i get the little bit of butterfly action that comes when you go to the airport to greet someone you love. so lucky to have that so often
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I love airports. Not the queues, not the luggage, not the security. But the trip. Going home. Waiting for a loved one. And now I hope for some a capella music now too
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1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE acapella music!!!
2. Airports rock!!
3. I remember getting off a plane as a teenager with family & seeing all the couples reuniting thinking “I wanna do that! I wanna feel so happy & loved!” A few years later, first time I travelled without my partner, I was so stoked that he would be at the airport waiting & I’d get to experience that ‘first entry to the terminal major love fest’… He was late!!!! Lol!! It just wasn’t the same & I remember thinking that I couldn’t wait for my next trip for the sheer fact that we had to get it right! Lol!
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Wow.
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My reaction exactly
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Oh me oh my. I’m sitting here just a wee bit teary….
Mr M comes home tomorrow and I will be at the airport with bells and pots and whistles and anything else I can possibly put on to express my joy and delight…
I’ve seen him for exactly one week in the past 12; this time he was staying for 2 but now has to return after 1….so my tears for this ad are really for me….and they don’t know whether to be happy or sad tears cause they are really both….
And so I just have to keep saying to myself….this too, will pass.
It is a very small burden compared to some.
But jeez, I LOVE going to the airport!
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Good luck with your reunion, PixieM! I’ve missed seeing you around here, and I’m glad to know you are ok. Hopefully he’ll come home for good soon xx
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Goosebumps and tears.
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Me too!
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Me three
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I have just arrived home for a few days for my grandfathers funeral and the emotion at the airport seeing my family was overwhelming. Airports are a place of much joy, love and of course sadness. I now have to say goodbye again tomorrow and have the sad part coming and the tears at the departure gate. But this clip brought a smile to my face through the tears as I think of my trip back.
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I’m currently in the UK and saw this advert when it was shown on TV here for the first time. While it was a good advert, I preferred the one they did at the train station.
I’m flying home a week early from this trip – I’m missing the hubby too much and I’m SOOOOOO looking forward to seeing him in arrivals – yup after 11 years and nearly 10 years of marriage [a week after I arrive we celebrate that] we’re still loved up and into public displays of affection – especially after being apart for 2.5 weeks!
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I am blubbing like a big bubba. This is FAB!
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love it. i like the ‘boys are back’ bit – the expressions on the ‘boys’ faces is awesome.
thanks for sharing – made me cry! i’m very emotional at the moment!
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I love airports and the hello side of the international. I always tear up. Its such a shame that airport parking has become soo expensive that a lot of people do drive by pick up. N
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We used to live really close to the airport (The Castle style) so we used to do that – one of us would walk over and wait for whoever was coming in, then we’d call Mum to come and pick us up with the car!
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Oooo that just made me tear with happiness
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Goosebumps, a big grin and a little tear. Just imagine the planning and practicing that went into that piece!
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Admittedly, I’m not a fan of airports – however that’s probably just a hangover from going off to boarding school at a young age and spending a lot of time in departure lounges waving tearful goodbyes to my parents.
However a couple of weeks ago my brother in law discovered a new love for airports when he sent me the following very excited text: “Just saw Mia Freedman at the airport! She is tiny…and just a little bit cute!” He was going to ask for a photo…then got shy and ran away….
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This made my day. Thanks for sharing x – I don’t post comments – this is actually my first but I read every day. Keep up the inspiring work x
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I like that one much more than the Windows ad that happened at the movies last time I went!
I worked at Qantas over my holidays at Uni one year – the bulk of my job was taking people who needed assistance through from the plane to whoever was meeting them. It was wonderful. Especially as the ones who needed assistance were elderly folks, kids flying on their own, and people with a bunch of kids, there was usually always an excited and happy reunion on the landside of the arrivals hall. Great job.
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I had the exact same job for Ansett NZ when I was in my very early 20′s. I loved every minute of it.
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I ADORE airports! I bawl at the thought of them alone!
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Took my mind off my sore tooth; thankyou. That made me smile, and maybe even have a little tear.
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Oh no – will sore tooth be ok for when you see/hear Mr C?? Xx
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I’ve had a crap week…it just got better.
Every single time I come through those doors into the arrivals hall I have to hold back the tears. For some reason I always feel like a little kid returning from a big adventure and am just overwhelmed. I could watch this ad all day. LOVE IT!
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Damn working in 1984 and not having speakers for my computer at work!!!
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AAHHHH…. I loved that so much! I’m still crying and smiling
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Aaahhh, refreshing-as-a-mountain-stream cool and sweet-as-a-lollipop at the same time!
Mind you, I’ve just come through that exact same arrivals hall, and all I saw were 50-odd glum-faced car drivers holding up white signs. After a 22 hour journey – where was MY serenade?!?!
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After a 22 hour journey, I think I would have been too tired & cranky. Never mind the serenade, I want some sleep. And a shower.
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I have watched this video about 67 times. Just saying
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This is sort of like the beginning of the film “Love Actually” which always makes me laugh and cry.
In the end, unless we’re complete psychopaths, all we really want in this world is to be loved and missed and valued.
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Ha ha, my other half and I call this airport stuff ‘love actually’ ie. he will ask me if I’m going to do the ‘love actually’ when he wants to know if I am going to pick him up from the airport. Love this clip and watching people being greeted at the airport because of exactly this and what you said.
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awwwwwwwwww….
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