United Airlines names former Obama press secretary Josh Earnest as spokesman

Chicago Tribune ^ | May 3, 2018 | by Robert Channick

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Reeling from a year of public relations disasters, United Airlines has named former White House press secretary Josh Earnest as its new spokesman.

Earnest, who served for eight years under President Barack Obama, the last three as press secretary, will handle communications for United, which stumbled in its messaging in response to situations including a passenger-dragging incident and a series of mishaps involving pets, damaging the Chicago-based airline’s reputation.

“United Airlines is an iconic, global brand with a long history — but it's United's bright future that makes me enthusiastic about joining the team,” Earnest said Thursday in a news release.

Most recently a political analyst for NBC News and cable channel MSNBC, Earnest advanced from deputy press secretary to top spokesman for the Obama administration in 2014.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Skywise]

i would now investigate united airlines for collusion.

[Gen.Blather]

Whenever I read that some company, Lyft, for example, have put an Obama person on the staff, I drop them.

[onedoug]

They don’t go where I go anyway.

[null and void]

That should enhance their credibility!

[Chad N. Freud]

“Whenever I read that some company, Lyft, for example, have put an Obama person on the staff, I drop them.”
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Agree. Now I no longer need to give United the benefit of the doubt.

[rb22982]

nice ~$1m/yr+ gig as a SVP of a large public company!

[mewzilla]

Glad I’m not a shareholder. Or a customer.

[x]

Joe Isuzu was too expensive ...

[Zathras]

The only airline workers more pro-Union militant than United (based in San Francisco) is the old Northwest Airline out of Minneapolis.
I sat on the ground for 4 hrs in Minneapolis while Union ground crews sat on the butts waiting for an approved person to fix a minor problem.

Then the pilots, walked off the plane, didn’t bother to tell anyone and we waited for another 2 hrs while they found a replacement crew.

Thank god NWA is gone!

[SoFloFreeper]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Corporate suicide.

I will NEVER fly these hacks. And I bet I’m not alone.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Northwest Orient Airlines is gone? I guess I’m behind the times. I don’t fly very often don’t pay attention to all the companies.

[Conserv]

The guy’s not even a good liar

[Don Corleone]

United lost its moral and business compass years ago, 1985 for example.

[chief lee runamok]

united airlines can now josh in earnest.

[lilypad]

One more reason not to use them.

[Dr. Ursus]

Let them fly your doggie,Joshie!

[Maskot]

Yep. Me too. That these companies cannot see the absolute destruction the obama administration did to this country is beyond my comprehension.

Unless, of course, they’re all down with the ideology, which is prolly closer to the truth. ANY company getting in bed with ANY obamanite gets tossed outta my wallet.

[FlingWingFlyer]

United needs somebody that is good at covering up and spinning f*** ups.

[Retvet]

Well I won’t fly anti-American airlines.