Landis PR

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yet it can erode in a moment, such as it has for the airline Southwest – previously known for great customer service – cancelled 15,000 flights over Christmas. Align internal and external communications. Public trust is perhaps your business’s most valuable commodity.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 23, 2023

Major airports experience increased passenger volumes, and airlines may offer more flights and vacation packages to cater to the demand. As you can imagine, this increased demand is driving up airfares on most routes, with ticket prices for international flights increasing by more than 30%. They are up more than 300% over last year.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Will your customer service team receive an increased amount of calls, what about your website and social media channels? Your social media team might already have something for responding to customer service issues. It should be someone with authority to speak on what has happened. Who is monitoring those?

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NewsWhip

JUNE 10, 2021

And the reality and what we always train our internal teams on is to understand, and I’m sure this resonates for a lot of your audience, there’s no action we can take these days as companies that can go unnoticed by the media. It comes down to every customer service interaction. That is a risk. It’s not a plan.

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Cision

MAY 3, 2017

The real cause of the United Airlines incident is an industry-wide problem, the all-too-common practice of overbooking. Bumping a paying passenger from a flight is an enormously disruptive action, regardless of which airline does it. The airline even appologized after it bumped a 10-year old from a flight. Image source: [link].

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Companies that successfully communicate with internal and external stakeholders when crisis hits have the highest chance of long-term success. When companies communicate openly, honestly, and clearly, they earn the trust of their customers. United Airlines initially maintained that its decision to remove the passenger was justified.

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Cision

OCTOBER 1, 2015

but it has morphed from simply loading the kids in the back of a station wagon in the 1950s and 1960s to boarding flights to international destinations today. Families are very aware of the high cost of air travel, with the need to buy multiple airline tickets. The family vacation has a long tradition in the U.S.

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