A route launch told from seat 14A, made with passengers and their own first-flight stories.
Window Seat
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3.1M
Organic views, week one
Northvane Air
Travel
· 2025
Client
Northvane Air
Sector
Travel
Markets
UK, Iceland, Ireland
Channels
Campaign · Social
Timeline
10 weeks
Northvane opened a new route from Manchester to Reykjavík. Instead of selling the destination, we sold the seat: 14A, and the stories of people who have sat in one.
The challenge
Route launches all look the same.
Airlines launch routes with the destination's best postcard and a price. Northvane's new route flew somewhere every competitor already sold, at a fare 15% higher. People needed a reason to choose the airline, not the place.
Seat 14A on the first flight. Every passenger we filmed got the window.
The idea
Everyone remembers a window seat.
We collected first-flight stories from 300 passengers and crew, filmed twelve of them on board, and gave the launch week to their stories. The window became the frame for every asset, from the film to the boarding pass.
Campaign still from seat 14A, and Arthur, 74, on his first flight in 1968.
What we made
Twelve short films and a campaign system built around one shape: the aircraft window.
Story call-out and casting of 300 passengers
Twelve short films shot on board
Window-frame OOH at three airports
Boarding pass and onboard print
Creator flights with travel writers
Launch month
3.1M
Organic views, week one
92%
Seat load in month one
+19%
Direct bookings against the last route launch
“Nobody remembers a fare. Everybody remembers a window seat. That line is still on our wall.”
