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Delta Airlines Cautionary Tale: A Case Study in The Crucial Role of PR in Reputation Management  

5W PR

The Delta Airlines Case: A Cautionary Tale The recent events surrounding Delta Airlines’ reaction to the CrowdStrike outages highlight the critical importance of effective reputation management and crisis preparedness. Public threats of lawsuits by corporations don’t achieve really any reputational benefits.

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S&T Live Recap: For Southwest Airlines, a Complex Crisis Required a ‘Thoughtful Communication Plan’

PRSay

“Whenever we get into any crisis moment, the guiding principles for us are compassion and action,” said Linda Rutherford, chief administration and communications officer for Southwest Airlines. We needed to be sure that we had good information getting out to our employees, so that they, in turn, could educate customers,” she said. “We

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How’s the Storytelling in the Facebook Page from North Korea’s Airline, Air Koryo?

Ishmael's Corner

Take that photo of a customer smiling over the company’s product/service or that video of employees raising money for a worthy cause, publish on Facebook and voila! I didn’t exactly pull Air Koryo, North Korea’s airline of choice, out of a hat. Singapore Airlines Hero Photo on Facebook. Virgin America Hero Photo on Facebook.

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How to Turn Your Brand Crisis into PR Success with Ease

Cision

United Airlines came under fire for forcefully dragging a passenger out from the overbooked flight number 3411 as a video recording of the incident went viral on social media. All of this happened because United Airlines chose to ignore the gravity of the situation. Communicate With Internal Stakeholders. HugOps [link].

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WTF US Airways??!!!

Melissa Agnes

Although some may say this is good publicity, I can bet that senior management over at the airline is in entire disagreement – as are TONS of their customers. Why is it so often that we find airlines at the heart of published gaffes and thoughtless (with major repercussions) posts to social media?

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ICON 2021 Recap: Inside Delta Air Lines’ Crisis Response to COVID-19

PRSay

Things began to continually get worse,” said Kristin Seay, Delta’s director of employee communications. Internal messages repurposed for news media. There were very few communications items that we produced that did not have an internal component as well as an external,” Shea said.

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Miami International Airport lands major industry comms award with newsroom

Presspage

Through September 2017, Miami International Airport was dealing with Hurricane Irma, which severely affected the airport's operations. The recognition of Miami International Airport was long due even before it responded to the Irma crisis. On November 7, Miami International Airport was named the recipient of the Peggy G.