EyeInTheSky
Veteran
First of all, it's "Sweeps Period" for TV stations across the country. In case you missed it, WTAE-TV Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate aired a pretty damning story about US Airways and it's airfares. Read transcript here http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/money/...953/detail.html.
The story was well researched, but CLEARLY had an agenda. Wendy Bell had an agenda to do a anti-US Airways piece prior to getting on flight from PIT to MIA. Where was she going? To interview a travel expert for the story. Apparently, Wendy Bell had some cooperation from David Castleveter and Chris Chiames. Problem is, they didn't monitor her actions too well. It is beyond my comprehension how Wendy Bell was able to hand out flyers and have access to 144 passengers on the plane. BIG QUESTIONS:
Why was a reporter allowed to hand out 144 paper questionaires to customers while in flight?
Why were passengers allowed to be interviewd on film?
Should the flight attendants have stopped this?
What happened aboard that airplane was not sanctioned by the company, that I know for a fact. Why didn't a US Airways Corporate Communications employee accompany Ms. Bell and her film crew to Miami? In short, where the hell was US Airways on this? Out to lunch? A reporter and a cameraman boarded the flight, hello?
Yes, PIT employees knew who she was when she boarded her flight on May 28. In fact, they upgraded her to First Class (she did not acknowledge this in her story).
Again, another screw up in the quest to attain positive PR.
The story was well researched, but CLEARLY had an agenda. Wendy Bell had an agenda to do a anti-US Airways piece prior to getting on flight from PIT to MIA. Where was she going? To interview a travel expert for the story. Apparently, Wendy Bell had some cooperation from David Castleveter and Chris Chiames. Problem is, they didn't monitor her actions too well. It is beyond my comprehension how Wendy Bell was able to hand out flyers and have access to 144 passengers on the plane. BIG QUESTIONS:
Why was a reporter allowed to hand out 144 paper questionaires to customers while in flight?
Why were passengers allowed to be interviewd on film?
Should the flight attendants have stopped this?
What happened aboard that airplane was not sanctioned by the company, that I know for a fact. Why didn't a US Airways Corporate Communications employee accompany Ms. Bell and her film crew to Miami? In short, where the hell was US Airways on this? Out to lunch? A reporter and a cameraman boarded the flight, hello?
Yes, PIT employees knew who she was when she boarded her flight on May 28. In fact, they upgraded her to First Class (she did not acknowledge this in her story).
Again, another screw up in the quest to attain positive PR.