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71% of Airlines See Mobile as the Future of Airline Payments

The Realtime Report

Mobile and social media will be a focus for airlines over the next few years, according to a recent survey from airline payment processing company WorldPay. A whopping 83% of airlines believe that improvement and deployment of new payment technology is a major business priority. photo: Wikipedia Commons.

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United Airlines PR Disaster: What you Can Learn from Their #FAIL

Devumi

There are times, though, where companies fail to properly communicate on these platforms. When left unchecked, they turn into PR disasters like what happened to United Airlines recently. The post United Airlines PR Disaster: What you Can Learn from Their #FAIL appeared first on Devumi.

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Dear United Airlines, Invest your money where you really need it. Customer Service

Josh S Peters

Good customer service and a caring company could have taken care of it without it ever being more than a blip on the web. I’ve been traveling a lot for business lately and so far the only airline I can say I will absolutely use again is Virgin Airlines. We all remember the United Breaks Guitars fiasco right?

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11 Smart Ways to Use Twitter Advanced Search

Hootsuite

Twitter isn’t just the birthplace of cutting-edge humor or the top place to find breaking news. Thanks to Twitter’s advanced search features, it’s also a surprisingly robust search engine. Twitter’s advanced search capabilities are some of the app’s most well-kept secrets. Here’s how to use it: 1.

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United Airlines: Principle Over People & Profits…Was It Worth It?

Myrland Marketing

Unless you’ve been stranded on a remote island for a few weeks, you are well aware of the incident on United Airlines that resulted in a passenger being forcibly removed from the plane. As ugly as that incident was, and that word doesn’t do it justice, the response from the airline matched it. Every airline does it.

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Why (and How) I Forced 912 People to Unfollow Me on Twitter

Ari Herzog

This screenshot, courtesy of TwitterCounter , shows a 3-month tally of my Twitter followers. Most notable was Midwest Airlines. They stopped tweeting three years ago when they were bought by Frontier Airlines. Next is an account for Formulists, a Twitter application that went out of business two years ago. How I did it.

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How a Volcano Created a World-Class Social Media Program for KLM Airlines

Convince & Convert

Karlijn manages social media at KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), which is no small task, as KLM gets about 60,000 mentions per week on social media. Specifically on Twitter, where you have a couple of characters to solve someone’s problems. After all, for an airline, people aren’t traveling on a 9-to-5 schedule.