Now, that´s what I call good news!!
Thank you boxer for posting the above link.
Don´t get me wrong, I´m all for testing new ideas...but reasonable and sensible ideas that will generate a healthy financial growth of the Company.
I was extremely concerned about this "new idea". Can you all imagine the number of customers we would have lost over this? We´re competing with many airlines on the IAD-Europe routes. Charging for meals will make our customers think twice before booking a flight on us. Passengers do have a choice of carriers, and someone at HQ was ignoring that fact. What works for domestic flying doesn´t necessarily apply to international flying. Two very different realities.
I´m glad the people who came up with this idea have finally come to their senses and have had a change of heart.
I feel I work for a mismanaged airline, but that doesn´t stop me from caring about United and its future.
It´s the airline I´ve chosen to work for, it´s my airline, if you know what I mean .
I think that with a professional and ethical top management team United will "go places", as it has in the not so distant past.
I refuse to be morally defeated by Mr. Tilton. He will not make me resent our airline. I resent his lack of managerial skills. I resent his personal greed and his absence of moral values. I resent his lack of entrepeneurial spirit. I resent his unexperience at running an airline the size of ours. But, I don´t resent our airline.
Mr. Tilton has upset far too many customers and employees with his ill informed and badly thought through decisions, like this irresponsible idea of charging for meals that nearly drove away many of our valued customers. I don´t think Mr. tilton is a very intelligent man, he´s just a smart Alec who´s landed a top paid job, and he´s making the most of it for himself, and himself alone.
I do apologise for the long post, but you have no idea how worried I was about the catastrofic consequences of another "tiltonism".
