While both men and women are featured in this ad, it reinforces a single standard of beauty - skinny, athletic and most often white.
New Zealand Air is trying to promote the fact that they don't have any hidden fees, which is a good thing to promote, but there's lots of other ways they could have done this.
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Not going to lie - it took me almost the entire commercial before I realized what their ploy was. Ugh.
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