The world is aghast at the passenger who was dragged off a United flight by airport police on Sunday night. And rightly so. It’s big news because things like this rarely happen, but they sure feel like they could happen to most any of us who travel. No one wants to be put in that position.
Here, everything failed. However I’m afraid things really won’t get better.
DirecTV is offering 50,000 American AAdvantage miles for new signups on 24 month agreements for ‘select’ packages or above.
The biggest offer I’ve ever seen before was 30,000 United miles.
There’s a passenger being dragged off a plane and bloodied and then there’s people looking for their 15 minutes complaining about situations outside an airline’s control.
Which one does the story of Geoff Fearns, President of TriPacific Capital Advisors, sound like to you?
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Cathay Pacific will introduced a new first class for the Boeing 777-9X.
They aren’t sure whether the new first class will feature enclosed suites, because according to their research passengers like a ‘society’ element (see and be seen).
With the whole world melting down over a United passenger being dragged off a plane, United’s public relations response has been abysmal.
United needs to quell the hordes, both for their own immediate business needs and to avoid a reaction that brings about bad rules detrimental to customers and to their business. So what CEO Oscar Munoz should have done this this:
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Sunday’s incident where a man was dragged off a United Express plane and bloodied was terrible. It’s excruciating to watch the video of the incident unfolding, and later of the disoriented man mumbling “just kill me.”
This was a tough situation all-around for which there were no good solutions. And things turned from bad to worse when a passenger refused to get off the plane when told to do so by the airline and by police. And it became the source of worldwide outrage when the police overreacted, dragged him off, and bloodied him.
Etihad Guest — a Citi and American Express transfer partner — offered absurdly cheap redemptions on Brussels Airlines. Sure, you had to hang up and call back to find an agent that could book the seats (Manchester, UK call center at 44 0345 6081225 is best for this) but given the low low prices it was worth it.
Redemptions were roundtrip only. Here are some of their cheap awards on Brussels Airlines, starting at just 930 miles roundtrip!
The story of how a passenger got dragged off a United Express flight just keeps getting crazier and crazier.
United CEO Oscar Munoz sent a letter to United employees beginning with the most important question of why the passenger defied the police rather than why the police bloodied the passenger. What ‘compounded’ the situation was the passengers refusal of the airline’s ‘polite’ request to deplane, making it ‘necessary’ to contact the police officer who appears to have beaten the passenger.
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