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Friday, June 8, 2018

How Just a Few Bad Employees Can Undermine $3 Billion Invested in Airline Product and more...

American highlights a $3 billion investment in products and services. However poor service from the airline's front line can undermine all the rest of the investment. A great example of this comes from June 4th's American Airlines flight AA192 from Hong ...

How Just a Few Bad Employees Can Undermine $3 Billion Invested in Airline Product and more...


How Just a Few Bad Employees Can Undermine $3 Billion Invested in Airline Product

American highlights a $3 billion investment in products and services. However poor service from the airline's front line can undermine all the rest of the investment.

A great example of this comes from June 4th's American Airlines flight AA192 from Hong Kong to Los Angeles. A business class passenger reportedly voluntarily offloaded himself because his experience with a flight attendant onboard prior to departure was so bad.

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Bad Idea: Investors Want to Bring Back Midwest Airlines and Make Milwaukee Great Again

Midwest Airlines, Frontier, and AirTran all tried to hub in Milwaukee. Today, no one does. There are some cities that have been tried and don't quite work as hubs. America West used to hub in Columbus, for instance.

Old airline brands never seem to die. There's another attempt to bring back Eastern Airlines. An airline using the People Express name operated again for a few months in 2014. And Pan Am is a name that just won't go away.

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What Airlines Should Learn From Delta

Paul Jacobson, Delta's Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer presented at today's Deutsche Bank 2018 Global Industrials and Materials Summit. 

He laid the airline's improvement in Net Promoter Score (willingness of its customers to recommend) with growth in its revenue premium -- how much extra customers are willing to pay to fly Delta over its competitors.

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Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Teaches Delayed Passengers How to Use the Lavatory

Passengers on a delayed Spirit Airlines flight departing Chicago O'Hare last month -- sitting on the ground with inoperative air conditioning, presumably no working auxiliary power unit, "babies are crying, everyone is moody" -- were treated to a flight attendant dropping some serious life advice.

He asks passengers to share their codine, lithium, quaaludes, and other drugs with their seat opponent -- but if it's a child sitting next to them "do a moral inventory, or just do like my mom used to, she broke it in half and gave it to me."

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Travel Site Divulges Your Personal Data With a Single Click and Amex Suing Singer

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.

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