- United Airlines does abrupt about-face on controversial lottery bonus by Chicago Business Journal. If only somebody could have predicted that gutting a employee rewards program and replacing it with a lottery would receive negative backlash. Pausing the program isn’t a result for employees, Kirby is just hoping the outrage dies down so he can unpause the same program at a later date.
- Is Another MLife Partnership In the Works? MLife Sends Out an Interesting Email by Miles to Memories.
- Do you Want to Use Radisson Rewards Free Award Nights at International Hotels? (Like / Retweet Me) by Travel With Grant. I’m not sure this will have any effect, but never hurts to try I guess.
- Such an awesome video, you can see the effect the coach had on this kid.
Wow, who would have guessed that a lottery that benefited only a lucky few and resulted in a fraction of the previous total payout would not be popular. A company can choose to cut bonuses if it is not contractual pay, but they do not need to be slime-balls and try to spin it into something positive and then act surprised when there it outrage. Really poor management all the way to the top.
From United? I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Remember United’s response after Harvey drowned on of their hub citys, Houston?
They matched points 300k for Harvey, Imra, and Maria. Sold ~$100,000 worth of miles “for charity” and flew like 6-7 relief flights to the employees in Houston. So it was targeted at getting their operation back up and getting people in seats – not charity at all, just a tax break.
And they had a 2.1 billion profit in 2017. Their “generosity” is like a family who makes 50k a year donating $10 to food bank and eating there for a month.
Also remember United’s response to the forcible removal of passengers last year.
Bad culture, bad leadership.