All Posts Tagged With: "united airlines"
Who are the worst CEOs to work for?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Oct 30 2009 | 0 Comments
According to employees of the companies surveyed, these are the top 10 worst CEOs (of CONSUMER companies) to work for.
Rank – Company – CEO – approval rating
10. US Postal Service – Jack Potter – 21%
9. Sun Microsystems – Jonathan I. Schwartz – 21%
8. eBay – John J. Donahoe – 20%
7. Convergys (a horrible call center company) – Dave Dougherty – 19%
6. Pfizer – Jeff Kindler – 19%
5. Sears Holdings – W. Bruce Johnson – 19%
4. RadioShack – Julian C. Day – 16%
3. Sports Authority – Doug Morton – 12%
2. United Airlines – Glenn F. Tilton 8%
1. Office Depot – Steve Odland – 7%
I haven’t had the displeasure of working for any of these companies, but I do come into contact with at least one of these on a daily basis it seems.
In the bigger chart (including companies that don’t come in contact with the consumer on day to day transactions) from Glassdoor, the absolute worst CEO to work for is Krishna Srinivasan, the CEO of Frost & Sullivan.
The best CEO to work for is Ken Powell at General Mills. Number 3 is Steve Jobs and number four is Eric Schmidt at Google.
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Tags: approval rating, jeff kindler, eric schmidt
Airlines decide to charge fees for checking in luggage at the airport…yeah.
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Jul 22 2009 | 0 Comments
Well, I’m going out of town today and I was checking in online and noticed something funny; U.S. Airways is now charging $20 at the airport for your first checked bag BUT if you pay for it on the internet, then it’s still *only* $15.
So, what is the extra $5 for?
Most likely, in my opinion, the fee is just another way to stick it to the consumer. I believe that I paid enough for my ticket to not have to pay for a checked bag, but that’s not my choice. I did, however, pack the biggest suitcase I own as well as the biggest carry on allowed by this particular plane (I’m flying regional jets).
I did a little snooping around and noticed that the change took affect at the beginning of July. I also noticed that US Airways isn’t the only carrier to do this.
Delta Air Lines has also added a $5 surcharge for paying the checked bag fee at the airport instead of when the flier does online check in. However, Delta has decided not to make the change happen until August 4th. This also means that Northwest and all the Delta Express, Northwest Airlink, Mesaba, etc will be doing the same.
United Airlines and Continental have also followed suit with their own “fees for paying fees” fee.
I find it absolutely stupid that I have to pay for a checked bag, now I have to pay a fee because of the fee if I don’t want to pay for the bag on the internet.
Airlines’ rules are strange, along with TSA regulations. This is why I’m getting to the airport at 10:30 for a flight that leaves at 12:45.
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Tags: passenger airline, southwest airlines co, bureau of transportation statistics
Is now the time to fly?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Mon, Mar 23 2009 | 0 CommentsWith many businesses hurting, it seems like airlines are taking this time to offer flights on the cheap.
Southwest, for example, is offering $39 one way tickets between its airport in Houston to other Southwest airports nearby.
It’s reported that some are even finding great deals to other parts of the world:
Qantas Airways is offering one-way fares between Australia and California for $299, and New York for $399. United Airlines is selling a new Moscow route for as low as $119 one way, before taxes and fees. American has fares from Chicago to Dublin for $147
I haven’t been able to find deals like these for a trip after graduation from Memphis, but I suppose knowing that the airlines are offering them is better than not knowing even where to begin.
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Tags: airline, flights, great deals
Bird strike happens again in Denver
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Feb 04 2009 | 0 CommentsA United Airlines flight from Denver to San Francisco had to turn around and land back at Denver’s airport Tuesday due to another “bird strike.”
Unlike the bird strikes that took down the “Hudson Miracle,” this plane never lost power to the one engine that sucked in the bird. The pilot of the Denver flight just wanted to make sure everything was fine.
Bird strikes are common, and while it is better to be safe than sorry in many occasions, the story out of New York probably has many people nervous about it happening. While it doesn’t say how many strikes were birds or if they were sucked into the engine, the FAA reported 257 “wildlife aircraft strikes” from the Denver airport just last year.
The thing is, you always hear stories about the “bad” airplane experiences…failing engines, bird strikes, crash landings, etc…but the news doesn’t report how many flights take off and land every day without incident. That’s just something we all have to remember. We’re much more likely to land safely than not.
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Tags: how many bird strikes are there a year, united airlines, united airlines flight
United Airlines has a “strange” day.
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Tue, Sep 09 2008 | 0 CommentsYesterday a Tribune paper, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, ran a six year old story on the internet from the Chicago Tribune. The problem with the story is that the news was UAL, parent company of United Airlines, was filing for bankruptcy.
Around 11 am this morning, Bloomberg News broadcast the story as new… That’s when the madness happened. Between the time the story was broadcast as “new” and 12:30 pm, when trading was halted, the stock dropped from around $12 a share, to $3. Even when trading resumed, it still didn’t completely recover from the damage done by the false story.
The staff at the Sun-Sentinel online still don’t know what happened or why the story was posted on their website. I am thinking it was probably just an accident, after all, I’ve seen some pretty disorganized newsrooms. Fowl play would be a little more fun though, as far as reporting on the story goes.
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Tags: stock, bankrupt, parent company
