Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. You know what happened, don’t you, on flight 1284 from Houston to LaGuardia on Monday evening? A United Airlines Flight Attendant insisted a passenger’s carrier be put in the overhead bin. The carrier had a dog inside. The […]
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. It’s hard to know whether these things happen predominantly on United flights, or whether the airline’s lagging brand reputation makes such stories emerge more readily. Yesterday, ululations were emitted in horror after a woman told the story
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. What is happening on United this week? First, a Flight Attendant forces a passenger to put her dog into an overhead bin. And the dog dies. Now another passenger is making a claim that is, if true,
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Airlines are a little like TV networks. Once the race to the bottom starts, everyone soon joins in, believing that somewhere down there must be gold. Rather than grime, that is. Of late, many airlines have begun
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. When you’re flying a long way, you’re only too grateful to get to the other end. Your hopes for getting wonderful food on the way aren’t entirely high. You also know, though, that human beings make a
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Mistakes happen. Sometimes, even big ones. Some might struggle, though, on hearing of 80-year-old Maria Laros’s problem trying to get from El Salvador to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. She’s partially blind and doesn’t speak much English, so her family
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Sometimes I just don’t understand. A few weeks back, this woman on a Delta Airlines flight was caught on video. She got angry, acted entitled, went off on a flight attendant–was removed from the plane. Days later, her name was all over the Internet, and she’d been put on leave from her job. Lesson learned. It’s
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. When your customers complain a lot, is it always your fault? Or could it be that you need a better class of customer? I teeter into this philosophical conundrum after looking at the list of U.S. airlines
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Airlines are rarely first when it comes to political action. They benefit far too much from government regulation to do anything other than quietly lobby and keep their ingrained advantages. After the killing of 17 students at Marjory
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. For most of their lives, Americans don’t care about curling. On Friday night, however, many were riveted to heavy kettles sliding down the ice, as grown men manically swept away like cleaners on cocaine. They were even
