Tom Posch missed a weekend trip to Cleveland last summer after United Airlines overbooked his flight. Normally, travelers in Posch’s shoes would quietly accept the flight vouchers the airline offered as compensation.
Susan Fuhrman’s husband is sick, and she can’t get a straight answer from United Airlines about her refund request. One representative agrees to a full refund, but another refuses. Who’s right?
Here’s a problem I run into every now and then, and which I normally refer back to the airline – which usually tells the passenger “tough luck.”
Air travel is full of surprises, some good, many not.
In a world of airline code-sharing and outsourced call centers, who takes ultimate responsibility when something goes wrong with your flight?
For the better part of the last year, I’ve thought United Airlines was a lost cause.
Paul Kivett’s plane broke down twice before it could take off from Chicago this summer. He arrived in Paris almost five hours late.
It’s hard to find anyone who likes the new United Airlines. Even at United Airlines.
This is the emergency operations center at United Airlines’ new headquarters in Chicago’s Willis Tower. Looks like an average conference room, doesn’t it?
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