News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hertz has settled dozens of lawsuits over false arrest when, they say, the rental car company reported cars stolen that weren’t. (HT: Paul H)
- The new Malaysia Airlines musical safety video
- Uber bringing back UberPool shared rides
- Cancellations, Delays Harm Delta’s Longstanding Reputation for Reliability
- United CEO Scott Kirby “We almost need the government more than we need ourselves to help” with industry problems like air traffic control.
The solutions are actually quite simple. The federal government shouldn’t be both regulating air traffic control and providing the service (regulating themselves). The air traffic control function should be spun off like in Canada and elsewhere. Then they could raise long-term money (bonds) for capital investment, instead of relying on the vagaries of Congressional budgeting a year at a time. The U.S. is only just replacing paper flight strips food goodness sakes!
- The three strangest borders on earth. (HT: Paul H)
Hertz is a Terrorist Organization
“While we remain steadfast in our commitment to defend the company’s interest against those that intend harm, we also want to do right by our customers.”
This is such bad PR. I seriously hope that CEO is arrested when some $8/hr wage slave “forgets” to input his business rental return into the system. I bet their systems would get fixed then, and it wouldn’t even cost the $100k to settle!
So they sent settlement offers. That means very little without knowing what those offers are. Anyone spending 12 days in jail should get more than $100K — I’m surprised they took it (but of course, I don’t know their personal situation).
Dude in the video has a very tenuous grasp of geopolitics.
Someone from Hertz needs to go to jail.
I work for a very larger corporation with over 100k employees and we received a memo recommending we choose another rental agency on company travel.
Today Hertz settled with 3 dozen customers who “had a negative experience with our company”. That’s corporate PR for “customers who got raped in prison due to our gross negligence”
I struggle to understand what PR official ok’ed this statement from the lawyers: “we remain steadfast in our commitment to defend the company’s interest against those that intend harm.” I also struggle to understand why Hertz is getting all the blame. Making a false report to police is a crime in every jurisdiction, yet all these police agencies have collectively done nothing but happily arrest whoever Hertz asks them to. This is a case of swatting at a corporate, institutional level, and we are left with nothing but civil litigation as a deterrent.
Non one affected by this outrageous behavior should settle for less than $1 million. Hertz needs to be driven out of business.