Tag: UNITEDAIRLINES

Wi-Fi has been available on planes for sometime now. In fact, on our way to this year's CES, in-flight Wi-Fi ruined what should have been a few hours dedicated to catching up on some reading and getting a little extra shut eye. Instead, Team Switched spent the better part of the six hour flight to Vegas blogging and hanging out in our team chat room...which might have landed us in hot water had ...

Let's role play a bit. You're a hacker and a spreader of malware. Your specialty is hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to spread spam and links to malicious sites. You've just managed to take over the Twitter page for United Airlines. In the meantime, we'll play the role of the hapless United Airlines follower who is constantly hoping to see a deal for cheap flights pop up. So, what ...

A near celebrity in the eyes of anyone who's logged onto YouTube (or Switched) in past months, Canadian singer David Carroll was less than pleased when United Airlines baggage handlers broke his guitar last summer. United initially refused to pay the $1,200 repair fee, but -- after Carroll's song 'United Breaks Guitars' (video after the break) attracted millions of YouTube viewers and got nearly ...

There are few things worse than a terrible flight. Long delays, endless taxing, and random layovers can make flying unbearable. Only in the last few years have passengers been able to do anything other than complain to the person next to them. Stranded, angry, and delayed passengers are filing their complaints on Twitter, much to the airlines' dismay. A quick Twitter search for major airlines ...

What's a poor musician to do when an airline breaks his guitar and gives him the runaround for nearly a year, ultimately refusing to pay for repairs? Write a song about how much said airline sucks, film a hilarious video of the song, and post said video to the Web, of course. After some United Airlines employees damaged Dave Carroll's expensive Taylor acoustic guitar, he was left with no option ...

United Airlines is giving you a little more for your money -- if you're flying International First or Business class, that is. For $2,500, you can now bask in the comfort of a United gadget-encrusted 'lie flat' seats. Both Business and First class have picked up some leg and elbow room, as well as filled up the new space with a 15.4-inch LCD screen that features 150 hours of on-demand TV and ...