Baby Overheats on Tarmac in DEN
06-27-2017, 08:54 AM
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Baby Overheats on Tarmac in DEN
https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4643902/amp/Baby-overheats-United-plane-two-hours-tarmac.html
06-27-2017, 09:27 AM
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Looks like another stellar performance put in by United Express.
06-27-2017, 09:33 AM
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In the news again! Great! Looks like it was a Trans States airplane (not that the public cares). You get what you pay for. We will never be the "world's best airline," if we continue to be reactive instead of proactive. We need upper management to ride in the back of some 145's and Commutair Dash-8's so they get the full experience of the Friendly Skies.
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
06-27-2017, 09:34 AM
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Thoughts and prayers for the child, for what it's worth.
I should hope managers make incidents like this a bigger part of their calculus when considering how much of their brand they choose to contract out. The flying public will care about as much that this kid was in the back of a Trans States ERJ as they did that the altercation in Chicago happened on a Republic ERJ (with ORD contract security).
I'm not aware of the operating limitations of the aircraft with regard to max temperature, but my time as a frequent guest in the back does make me wonder how well-suited the pneumatics are for high and hot conditions. Any 145 drivers here that know the ins and outs of the system? Because to the uneducated observer, the design's roots as a streched Brasilia are pretty evident in the cabin...
I should hope managers make incidents like this a bigger part of their calculus when considering how much of their brand they choose to contract out. The flying public will care about as much that this kid was in the back of a Trans States ERJ as they did that the altercation in Chicago happened on a Republic ERJ (with ORD contract security).
I'm not aware of the operating limitations of the aircraft with regard to max temperature, but my time as a frequent guest in the back does make me wonder how well-suited the pneumatics are for high and hot conditions. Any 145 drivers here that know the ins and outs of the system? Because to the uneducated observer, the design's roots as a streched Brasilia are pretty evident in the cabin...
06-27-2017, 09:52 AM
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In the news again! Great! Looks like it was a Trans States airplane (not that the public cares). You get what you pay for. We will never be the "world's best airline," if we continue to be reactive instead of proactive. We need upper management to ride in the back of some 145's and Commutair Dash-8's so they get the full experience of the Friendly Skies.
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
06-27-2017, 10:03 AM
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And Dao stormed back through a secure area and physically resisted airport authorities in Chicago. Didn't seem to help Big U in the court of public opinion.
There is an image of a panicked mother holding an unresponsive baby in the cabin of a United-branded plane, and you don't think the press and the public are going to run with it? I hope you're right.
There is an image of a panicked mother holding an unresponsive baby in the cabin of a United-branded plane, and you don't think the press and the public are going to run with it? I hope you're right.
06-27-2017, 10:07 AM
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And Dao stormed back through a secure area and physically resisted airport authorities in Chicago. Didn't seem to help Big U in the court of public opinion.
There is an image of a panicked mother holding an unresponsive baby in the cabin of a United-branded plane, and you don't think the press and the public are going to run with it? I hope you're right.
There is an image of a panicked mother holding an unresponsive baby in the cabin of a United-branded plane, and you don't think the press and the public are going to run with it? I hope you're right.
06-27-2017, 10:11 AM
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The posted version of the story broke two hours ago and the local Denver network affiliates are running ditto headline stories that pop up in the prompt on Google. It's been in the newspaper as well, for whatever that's worth in this day and age. So, yes, I'm afraid.
The Daily Mail may be an awful rag, but the story's presence in a sensational tabloid on another continent does not fill me with confidence that we've heard the last of it.
The Daily Mail may be an awful rag, but the story's presence in a sensational tabloid on another continent does not fill me with confidence that we've heard the last of it.
06-27-2017, 10:34 AM
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In the news again! Great! Looks like it was a Trans States airplane (not that the public cares). You get what you pay for. We will never be the "world's best airline," if we continue to be reactive instead of proactive. We need upper management to ride in the back of some 145's and Commutair Dash-8's so they get the full experience of the Friendly Skies.
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
Our product is so inconsistent, from these dinged up RJ's to the outsourced rampers and gate agents in our outstations. No one wants to fly on these hot, cramped little 50-seaters. Park them yesterday. If the airplane isn't cool, don't board until it is. If passengers are complaining--LISTEN!! This isn't rocket surgery. It's going to be a long summer here at United...
He either never flies on RJ's or does, likes them, and needs to have his head examined.
06-27-2017, 10:47 AM
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As an example of how such things work, this story first appeared in the Denver Post on the 23rd and is just percolating nationally/internationally now.
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