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Old Nov 23, 2017, 7:23 pm
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5khours
 
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Originally Posted by spin88
I gotta defend the "senior" employees here. Before 2012 there was a dedicated system of routing to senior agents for GS and 1K. Most of the time you got a HNL or DTW agent, and they were great. As a GS in hundreads of calls over a number of years I never had a HUCA issue. in 2012 they combined the senior sCO agents and went to shares. I found the sCO agents were trained to say no, and I would HUCA trying to get someone in DTW or HNL, but then they were not as proficient with SHARES. Lots of hanging on the phone while they tried to do something. Also losts of "I know this is what fixes the problem, but we have been told expresssly not to do this, and I'll get written up".

That UA does not have great CS for GS (and 1Ks) is simply a management decision to save money. I'm sure in the spreadsheet world set up by the Smith Street Gang having GS and 1K go to regular agents (1) better used resources and (2) reduced the "expenses" that were being incurred by having agents who know how to fix issues fix them.

The problem at UA is not the employees, its the management.
+10,000 and it wasn't just CS. 10 years ago UA had a great premium (GF) international product and the service was typically extremely good. IMHO the biggest problem is that management has not figured out that maximizing the profitability on any given flight has consequences for longer term loyalty and revenue from their best premium customers. The quant jocks in IM have convinced management that anything that can't be measured is not important.
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