Like millions of other news - and video - obsessed consumers, I have been held captive by
the image of an airline passenger being wrenched and dragged like a sandbag off an overbooked United flight from Chicago to Louisville.
Not exact matches
James Stewart, New York Times columnist, discusses United
Airlines» push to burnish its
images following the public uproar caused by the violent treatment and dragging
of a
passenger this past April.
Even as it spruces up for business travellers, WestJet still feels friendly — an
image cultivated through savvy social media stunts like the 2013 masterstroke in which
airline staff fulfilled Christmas gift wishes for a planeload
of passengers.
An Emirates
airlines Boeing 777 - 300 on the ground in Dubai airport (3 August 2016)
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Image The inflatable emergency exit slides can be seen next to the remains
of the aircraft Emirates
airline said there were 282
passengers and 18 crew on board from 20 nationalities, most
of them Indian, with 24 Britons and 11 people from the United Arab Emirates.
The policy change given by the TSA is that the imposition
of growing fees for checked baggage by the
airlines that has prompted
passengers to densely pack their carry - ons, and that this has made it harder for screeners to identify particular items amid the jumble
of images appearing on their screens.
In addition to the new food selections, Japan
Airlines will provide
passengers with six different specially designed tray mats, featuring
images and designs
of Kumamon, the bear - like mascot
of Kumamoto, the Japanese prefecture where the dishes originated from.
Taryn Simon's exhibition at the architecturally distinguished Milwaukee Art Museum offered up a generous and inquisitive photographic archive that spanned ten years and three distinct projects: «The Innocents,» 2002, portraits
of people wrongfully convicted
of violent crimes; «An American Index
of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,» 2007,
images of sites and holdings generally inaccessible to the public; and «Contraband,» 2010, a series that documents, with clinical precision, items seized over a given week from
airline passengers entering the United States.
These full - body scanners screen
airline passengers by peering underneath clothing, and they can store, record and transfer
images of screened
passengers, making the
images open to possible abuse.
If you want to focus on your friendly demeanor, try «to use my outgoing and personable nature to maximize the comfort and enjoyment
of passengers and create a positive
image for the
airline.»