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Southwest Air’s intern Twitter thread: Brilliant or brutal social media marketing?

Communications Conversations

In case you missed it, last week Southwest Air turned the keys over to the social media intern on Twitter. It’s the Social Media Intern. Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) April 13, 2022. Not surprisingly, few have to do with the intern topic. And yes, the social media intern trope is getting old.

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S&T Live Recap: For Southwest Airlines, a Complex Crisis Required a ‘Thoughtful Communication Plan’

PRSay

“Whenever we get into any crisis moment, the guiding principles for us are compassion and action,” said Linda Rutherford, chief administration and communications officer for Southwest Airlines. Who are the involved audiences, what’s going on with them and how can we show movement?”

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Global Business Leaders Congratulate Maxim Behar for the PR Week Award as Best PR Professional in Europe for 2022

Maxim Behar

We know each other for almost 15 years now, have done numerous projects together within the International PR Organization ICCO, have met several times in Austria and in Bulgaria. You are one of the strongest persons that we have in the international PR business. Sales and Traffic Representative, Turkish Airlines. Dima Tutar.

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When are we going to learn: Failure = Growth and learning, not a fireable offense

Communications Conversations

And earlier this year, Southwest Air tried to have some fun with a string of tweets, conceivably from one of their interns. It’s the Social Media Intern. Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) April 13, 2022. Hey everyone. They gave me the Twitter password. Might mess around and make a thread, idk. ?.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

5 webinar “Crisis Management on an International Stage: Takeaways from Boeing’s Biggest Crisis and Time Spent in the West Wing.”. And we’re going to do about half of that in 2021, and probably the remainder in 2022. The airlines themselves have to return their fleets to service. As I mentioned earlier, safety is our No.

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Summer Travel: How PR & Comms Are Helping Drive Demand

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Major airports experience increased passenger volumes, and airlines may offer more flights and vacation packages to cater to the demand. AAA had interesting booking data showing that overseas adventure travel is up more than 200% compared to 2022. The largest jump they saw was regarding hotel stays.

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Maxim Behar: Politics in the modern world must be entirely dependent on the opinion and operations of business

Maxim Behar

In the field of services and in the communication business it seems to be somehow easier, but the manufacturing enterprises, the tourism business, the airlines - all this was affected in an extremely negative way and each of these entities was struggling to survive. I say it with the best wishes, it happened as it happened.