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@Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens

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United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens

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@Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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United Airlines is personalizing in-flight marketing as the carrier seeks to cash in on passenger data.
  • MushuChupacabra
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    182•1 year ago

    For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:

    This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.

    • @Eheran@lemmy.world
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      The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.

      • @CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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        United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          7•1 year ago

          Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.

          If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.

          • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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            That’s not how FAA regs work. There is no such thing as standing room on a plane.

        • @Eheran@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          Sure, but telling someone to leave their plane for some oddball reason is “only bad” not outright crazy like what happened then.

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    • @potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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      I got screeched at for covering up a super bright blinking light on a red eye. Their FAs are next level stupid.

    • @Potatisen@lemmy.world
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      15•1 year ago

      They did what?

      • MushuChupacabra
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        58•1 year ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_removal

        • @CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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          69•1 year ago

          “The incident is widely characterized by critics as an example of mishandled customer service.”

          Made me laugh, that’s putting it lightly…

          • MushuChupacabra
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            They mishandled the shit out of him.

          • @tomkatt@lemmy.world
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            12•1 year ago

            “The incident is widely characterized by critics as an example of mishandled manhandled customer service.”

            Just a typo.

        • @restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
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          15•1 year ago

          Holy shit what a ride that was.

          It’s clear from a lot of stories like this (severe customer mistreatment) that United employees are miserable people who hate their jobs but this is nuts. I hope Dr. Dao got a huge settlement from United.

          • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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            United is Four Seasons compared to American.

        • @Seleni@lemmy.world
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          Wow. Even Trump thought they went too far. Damn.

          And the CEO who brushed that assault off ‘suffered’ a ‘delayed promotion’. Poor thing. For saying that stuff about anyone, let alone a customer, he should have been fired, no golden parachute.

          I think the doctor’s patients should have sued the airline too, since no doubt having their doctor pounded to a pulp caused them to miss their appointments.

      • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk2Y_VL5e7s

    • @AceBonobo@lemmy.world
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      9•1 year ago

      And they break guitars

      https://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo?si=22AVoZsoS9Celac6

    • @conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      9•1 year ago

      Overbooking should be a mandatory minimum compensation of the greater of 1000x the ticket price or $20k. It’s a truly fucked up practice to disrespect people’s time like that.

      • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        Oh, we’ll just refund you the cost of the ticket. That was the whole cost, right?

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      • RubberDuck
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        Please enter your credit card to disable ads

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          Screens don’t hit back

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      • @reversebananimals@lemmy.world
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        “If you don’t like it don’t fly”

        Seriously just shut up.

        Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

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      • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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        5•1 year ago

        No, you can’t.

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          3•1 year ago

          You can if you’re a Party member

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          1•1 year ago

          You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out

          But that’s not the point, it still sucks

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