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Former United Airlines CEO Slams Boeing's 'Lack Of Trust' As CEO Dave Calhoun Faces Senate Heat
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 6:21am | 610Oscar Munoz, former CEO of United Airlines, has voiced his concerns over the current crisis at The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), criticizing the lack of trust in the company’s leadership. What Happened: Munoz expressed his views during CNBC’s “Last Call” on Tuesday following a...
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United Airlines Names Kirby's Successor As President
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 12:08pm | 484United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) has named Brett Hart as president, effective May 20. Hart, who joined United in 2010, is the airline's executive vice president and chief administration officer. The promotion is part of the airline's leadership succession plan announced in early December in which...
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US Airline Companies Shaking Up Their Infrastructure
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 2:22pm | 1166Jet Blue Appoints Two Vice Presidents, United Airlines Announces CEO, and American Airlines Introduces a Passport Scan Feature JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) is once again the subject of a possible merger speculation and by no other than Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) who...
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United Airlines Reports Q2 Beat, Raised Guidance
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 4:26pm | 219United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UAL) shares traded slightly higher Tuesday afternoon after reporting a second-quarter earnings and sales beat. Second-quarter adjusted earnings came in at $4.21, beating estimates by 13 cents. Sales came in at $11.402 billion, beating estimates by $62 million....
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White House Pushing 'Infrastructure Week': Here's What To Expect
Monday, June 5, 2017 - 12:07pm | 524On Monday, President Donald Trump kicked off his effort to reform the Federal Aviation Administration. The initiative is expected to mirror a plan by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, which died after committee last year. Privatizing Air-Traffic Control The...
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Spirit Airlines CEO Sends Email To Customers Apologizing For Pilot Shortage -- 2 Weeks Later.
Friday, May 26, 2017 - 4:15pm | 559Airline debacles seem to be a common theme in 2017. While United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL)'s “re-accommodation” — the passenger removal disaster — dominated headlines last month, low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines Incorporation (NASDAQ: SAVE) had a disaster of its...
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A Giant Dead Bunny Gives Airliners Another Headache
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 5:07pm | 658As an airline passenger, seeing a dead giant rabbit isn't a pleasant scenario. But for some, it may be preferred over seeing a flight attendant taunting a passenger to start a fight. What impact these and other incidents will have on the long-term invisibility profile of airliners remains to be...
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United CEO Oscar Munoz Also Owes Investors An Apology
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 1:18pm | 339United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL)'s disastrous incident of a passenger dragged off a plane has prompted the company's CEO Oscar Munoz to issue an apology to the violently bumped passenger. But according to Steve Odland, a former retail executive, investors also deserve an apology....
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United Airlines Should Learn From How These 6 Companies Handled PR Disasters
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 4:50pm | 808United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) could certainly use some help when it comes to the public relations department. The company has received harsh public criticism for a pair of recent incidents involving airline passengers, and the company's PR department seems to have done more harm than...
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Pummeled United Passenger Suffered Concussion, Broken Nose; Will Likely Sue
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 3:50pm | 381The doctor violently booted off a United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) suffered a concussion and broken nose and probably will sue the airline and the city of Chicago, his lawyer said Thursday. "For a long time airlines, United in particular, have bullied us," Thomas Demetrio told...
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United CEO Apologizes To Violently Bumped Passenger After Blaming Him For Disturbance
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 3:57pm | 455United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) CEO Oscar Munoz, under fire after a screaming and bloodied physician was dragged off an overbooked flight, finally apologized to the man on Tuesday after earlier blaming him for the whole mess. A Different Tune In a message to employees, Munoz said:...
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United Investors Aren't Pleased; Stock Falls As China Fumes Over Booted Passenger
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 11:31am | 538The man who wouldn’t leave the plane just won’t go away. Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) were down more than 4 percent in early trading on Tuesday as outrage spread over the violent removal of a man identified as David Dao, a doctor, from a United jet preparing to...
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United Air Facing A Twitter Tailspin As Responses To Overbooking Fiasco Flood In
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 3:53pm | 974United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) has found itself in the middle of a PR nightmare Monday after a video of police forcibly removing a paying customer from an overbooked flight on Sunday night has gone viral. Following the incident, CEO Oscar Munoz issued an official apology for the way...
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Unfriendly Skies: Passenger Ejection From Overbooked Flight Raises Questions About Bumping
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 2:25pm | 788A bloodied passenger who was dragged screaming from a United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport has raised questions about passenger rights, airline employee perks and the practice of “bumping” people on overbooked flights...
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United Continental's CEO Oscar Munoz Eager To Make Up For Lost Time
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 2:53pm | 363United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL)'s CEO Oscar Munoz is now ready to make up for lost time after the 57-year-old suffered a heart attack last fall and had to have a heart-transplant operation in January. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Munoz acknowledged his right hand isn't 100...