Ari

A United employee sold entire flight manifests to DEA special agents daily for years while getting bribed hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.

What actions did United take? Did United determine whether those were good or bad reasons to share private traveler info? AA spoke out against the practice. United was mum; do they feel differently than AA? Or does UA only value the privacy of those who can vote to bail them out with billions of dollars?

GUWonder

Yes, UA has had employees -- some of whom are still probably on its payrolls -- who have been doing this kind of thing for years and years. It's been going on for a long time and it gets occasional press coverage that makes direct or indirect references to the airline employees leaking passenger travel information:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/5/...a-pays-off-big

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2...ures/88474282/

UA's rail partner Amtrak apparently had one secretary on payroll who netted over $800,000 in gains from the government for leaking passenger info over the course of around 20 years. That would be more like $1.5+ million dollars today for leaking passenger info.

A UA employee already in the business of leaking passenger info under the table for money for one purpose may have less inhibition about leaking such info to other parties under the table for money (or even no money) . And if the company has a culture of looking the other way to any kind of leaking of passenger info and shows that it isn't consistently strong on passenger privacy (regardless of the recipient of the leaked information), then it shouldn't be a surprise that the same airline employee or other airline employees may follow course in leaking passenger info too.

physioprof

This kind of hyperbole is totally off-topic. Take it to OMNI.

SPN Lifer

Should we consign these puns to a trigonometry thread?

The "agent sine" analysis is integral to resolution of UA leaker identification, assuming it is not an imaginary number.