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How to Stop a Nightmare: Listen to Your Customers

Cision

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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How to Stop a Nightmare: Listen to Your Customers

Beyond PR

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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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

But why be afraid of big government when we freely provide our life story to social networks and give up our privacy to airlines in return for a bribe of a few more air miles. This obsession with newspaper, radio and television coverage – earned media – is a rabbit hole we disappeared down in the 1950s. She will be media neutral.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

It comes down to every customer service interaction. The Miracle on the Hudson, United airlines. ” Now, none of the air control towers that he radioed had that plan for him, he completely improvised that. Chris: We have to be aware of everything, quite frankly. It comes down to product launches.