Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. For United Airlines, the anniversary of dragging a paying, bloodied passenger, Dr. David Dao, down a plane brought nothing more than a few fond remembrances and claims that the airline is so much better now. This doesn’t […]
We’ve seen it over and over recently, with passengers on United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Airlines, and now American Airlines. They witness or endure something disturbing: a dog placed in an overhead bin; a toddler and family kicked off a flight. Then, through a combination of passion, determination, immediacy and direction, they make the story go viral. Now,
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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,
You may have heard: A Southwest Airlines passenger is suing Southwest for landing at the wrong airport. It’s the kind of case we talked about back in law school, and I was intrigued enough to dig up the court complaint down in Missouri. I’ve included it at the bottom of this story. But I think the
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
If you travel for business, you’ve likely seen more incidents of passengers behaving badly. One key difference now is that many more are captured on video. Now, one of the more shocking videos you’ll see of this sort has emerged from a recent JetBlue flight. In it, a disturbed passenger apparently goes bezerk–berating cabin crew, breaking out
This is a story about how quickly things spread in the digital age–and once again, how long-lasting reputations can be made in otherwise unmemorable minutes. The Delta Airlines passenger who shot a quick, 45-second video of another passenger’s outburst, and then put it on her personal Facebook page, said Saturday she’s been completely surprised at
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Never imagine that life is fair. The best you can hope for is poetry. Poetry can even lift pain to the level of art and greed to the level of pity. Which brings me to Harvard economics
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Where do you stand on taking your shoes off? On a plane, that is. Some say it’s necessary because your feet swell on a long flight, so your shoes become uncomfortable. Others insist that it’s a putrid
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. I’d always thought that airlines mislaid guitars and pets, rather than, you know, human beings. It seems, though, that on occasion humans just disappear when they fly United Airlines. Ann Miller, for example, became a little concerned
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