Emirates mocks United Airlines for aggressively removing a passenger
Dubai — Middle Eastern carriers seized on the social media storm surrounding the forced removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight to hit back at one of the arch-critics of their breakneck expansion. Dubai-based Emirates mocked United’s best-known advertising slogan on its Twitter account, urging passengers to "fly the friendly skies with a real airline". Royal Jordanian Airlines joined in with a pun on the man being dragged from the aircraft, while Turkish Airlines pointed out that it added an extra passenger to one of its flights after a baby was born on board, last week. While most airlines steered clear of commenting on the United debacle, the US giant’s embarrassment over the removal of the man to make way for one of its employees was too good an opportunity to miss for Mideast operators subject to years of gibes over the part played by state funding in their success story. The Emirates tweet includes a video mocking United CEO Oscar Munoz’s suggestion this year that ...
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