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Hey fliers, looks like a good time to buy United stock

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The thread discusses the United Airlines overbooking scandal where a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight, focusing on CEO Oscar Munoz's poor crisis management and public relations missteps, including insensitive initial statements and admissions that overbooking removal is standard policy. Participants suggest the incident will likely hurt United's stock and customer base despite the broader market impact being limited. The thread reflects automotive industry professionals applying their own PR expertise to critique corporate mishandling of a major public relations crisis.

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You know the saying....when there is blood in streets.....errrrr.....blood in the aisle :rofl:

Yeah, I'm an insensitive prick, but I have a feeling that Doctor probably won't have a financial need to work in a hospital again.

What is blowing my mind is how piss poor United's CEO's responses have been. What a dumbass! Goes to show that even at that level it is easy to live in the bubble of your own world. How many of us have made that mistake; mishandling a PR episode?
 
Just taking a guess here but, Something tells me they won't have any over booking issues and finding seats for their employees on their planes in the near future. They should have plenty of empty seats avail.

Now... I need to re-accommodate myself to a diff thread :)
 
This CEO is having a terrible time.
1. He said the guy was being problematic, but now the video of the before leaked and he was being pretty reasonable
2. His first public response was incredibly insensitive and did not address the issue
3. In his first interview, he said "we need to review the processes that supported this" - great way to admit that dragging people off planes is current policy

I wish him the best of luck.
That said, in perspective the market is not as bad as you might expect.

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The thread discusses the United Airlines overbooking scandal where a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight, focusing on CEO Oscar Munoz's poor crisis management and public relations missteps, including insensitive initial statements and admissions that overbooking removal is standard policy. Participants suggest the incident will likely hurt United's stock and customer base despite the broader market impact being limited. The thread reflects automotive industry professionals applying their own PR expertise to critique corporate mishandling of a major public relations crisis.

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