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Old Apr 18, 2017 | 9:38 pm
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Fiordland
 
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Originally Posted by GregoryGardner
Were any mainline UA employees directly involved in this whole fiasco? UX airplane operated by Republic, security provided by airport / city of Chicago, GA outsourced (?).

Many FTer's would point out that UX vs UA is a "distinction without a difference", and that may be true from a customer perspective. But from the point of view of UA trying to improve service, having so much of the customer-facing operation outsourced to third parties makes it hard to drive change.
UA is the organisation that sold the ticket to the passenger. I would think they are responsible for their sub-contractors (regionals and the security service they called and used).
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