MCO’s Social Media Team Needs Help!

by SharonKurheg

The social media team for Orlando International Airport has been one of our favorites for years and years and years. They’re funny as all out and besides giving you the boring-but-necessary info that they’re at a ground stop because it’s summer in Orlando or CrowdStrike is having a brain fart, or that Parking Garages A & B are full, they also post a whole lot of stuff just to make its readers smile.

I mean, who could ever forget their tweet war over Chili’s?

Or when they compared Muppets to airline passengers?

Or when they give directions about what to do on #WingsUpWednesday?

That last sentence, tho

Now that last sentence? About snapping a carpet pic? Yeah. Lots of people have a whole lot of affection for the airside carpet in Terminals A and B. Maybe you’ve seen it?

a close up of a fabric

Although probably not QUITE as popular as Portland’s residents’ affection for their old carpet (I bet they were thrilled when this announcement came out), it’s pretty darn popular. Enough where they give away (very popular) socks with the pattern (yeah, I’m still trying to win a pair, LOL!).

Although some of us just get our own shirts made…

Meanwhile, back to the MCO social media team

Where were we, again? Oh yeah…MCO’s carpet.

So the other day, MCO’s social media team put out the following tweet:

(I love how their manager is labeled “Hello, this is your Manager” on their phone!)

Apparently, the social media team would like the airside carpet in their office, so they asked their manager how many likes they would have to get to get it. Their manager’s response? “40,700 likes (note: Orlando’s area code is 407), a comment from Universal Orlando Resort, AND Mayor Buddy Dyer.”

a large globe and roller coaster

Whoa…that’s hardcore!

So what happened? Welp, within 2 hours, they had Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s thumbs up (Buddy’s a cool guy. He also does the “Welcome to Orlando/Goodbye from Orlando” spiels on the MCO monorails that whisk you between the main building and Terminals A/B/C):

And an hour after that, there was a comment from Universal Resort Orlando:

In fact, in the first the 24 hours after MCO’s tweet was posted, they had already garnered close to 50,000 views, more than 120 retweets and over 1.5k “likes.”

It’s a great start, but they need more! So if you have the time and inclination, please go to the post and give it a “like.” Their social media team needs that carpet!

Here’s the direct link to the post, so you can like it. And if you wouldn’t mind sharing their post, that wouldn’t suck either. If you do either or both, please respond to this post so we can thank you.

Thanks, travel friends!

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1 comment

Buddy July 19, 2024 - 12:13 pm

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In this case, all of it. Whomp whomp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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