La denuncia de un pasajero de Delta Airlines se volvió viral. He aquí por qué todo el mundo parece tan infeliz

La denuncia de un pasajero de Delta Airlines se volvió viral.  He aquí por qué todo el mundo parece tan infeliz

Esta es una historia sobre Delta Air Lines y un hilo de Twitter muy memorable esta semana.

Cuando me encontré con esto por primera vez, inmediatamente pensé en el antiguo personaje de Bill Hader, stefanoen Sábado noche en directo — el que ofrecía guías de la vida nocturna de Nueva York y describía los clubes con las palabras: “Este lugar lo tiene todo…”

Porque si sigue la industria de las aerolíneas (¡y debería hacerlo!), este hilo de Twitter sobre Delta Air Lines tiene exactamente eso: casi todas las razones por las que las personas parecen tan descontentas con los viajes aéreos en el verano de 2022.

En otras palabras, todos:

  • Vuelos retrasados ​​y llenos de gente.
  • Clientes insatisfechos y bots de redes sociales.
  • Las familias y los turistas vuelan con más frecuencia.
  • Los viajeros de negocios se preocupan por las familias y los turistas que ahora vuelan con más frecuencia.
  • Requisitos de la tarjeta de crédito para niños en edad preescolar.

Espera un minuto. “¿Requisitos de la tarjeta de crédito para niños en edad preescolar?” (Recuerde, todavía estamos haciendo “Stefon” aquí).

“¿Conoces esa cosa en la que se les dice a los padres de una niña de 4 años que no pueden llevarla a un salón de Delta SkyMiles porque la niña no tiene la tarjeta de crédito correcta?”

Así comenzó todo, con un tuit de una pasajera de Delta Air Lines llamada Emily Galvin-Almanza troleando a Delta por aparentemente decirle que su hija solo podía acompañarla a un salón Delta SkyMiles gratis si su hijo tenía su propia tarjeta de crédito.

Este breve tuit generó miles de reacciones y comentarios.

Algunos pasajeros estuvieron de acuerdo con ella sobre lo absurdo, más pasajeros le dijeron a Galvin-Almanza que debería haber estado dispuesta a pagar una tarifa para llevar a su hijo a la sala VIP, y muchos más aprovecharon la oportunidad para objetar casi todo lo demás, quejarse del aire. viajar este verano.

En lo que resultó ser un gran ejemplo de alivio cómico, la cuenta de Twitter del servicio de atención al cliente de Delta aparecía regularmente y preguntaba cómo podía ayudar Delta.

Pero cada vez, la cuenta lo hizo de una manera que daba la impresión de que quienquiera que estuviera detrás no se había dado cuenta del contexto.

Honestamente, este hilo probablemente podría haber estallado en respuesta a una queja de un pasajero sobre casi cualquier aerolínea.

Supongo que solo era el turno de Delta; Si bien me comuniqué con Delta Air Lines varias veces para obtener comentarios o contexto, nunca recibí una respuesta.

Aún así, si yo fuera un analista o ejecutivo de una aerolínea tratando de evaluar el futuro cercano de los viajes aéreos en los Estados Unidos, con Delta Air Lines o cualquier otra aerolínea, creo que leería cada una de las respuestas.

Entre los cientos de respuestas al momento de escribir este artículo, sin mencionar los 172,300 me gusta en el hilo, vimos temas como los siguientes:

Un breve tuit de 11 palabras que resume la idea, alguna vez controvertida, del negocio más lucrativo de las aerolíneas. según algunos analistas, no vuela; vende millas de viajero frecuente a los bancos, que las usan para atraer a las personas a abrir cuentas de tarjetas de crédito.

A partir de ahí, nos sumergimos en la tensión actual entre los viajeros frecuentes de toda la vida y otros pasajeros más nuevos sobre quién puede usar los salones de SkyMiles. (“No somos WeWork”, dijo recientemente el director ejecutivo de Delta Sky Club, Claude Roussel, cuando Delta cambió sus reglas para limitar el tiempo que los pasajeros elegibles podían usar los salones).

Algunos pasajeros en el hilo de Twitter estuvieron de acuerdo:

  • “¿Son $40? Y actúas como si hubieran dejado a tu hijo afuera sin ti. Pague y todos entren, o no y esper en en la puerta. Mi socio es platino Amex, la prospección de oro. A veces voy, a veces no”.
  • “Que su hijo de 4 años no pueda ingresar gratis al salón premium no es la indignación que cree que es”.

(Galvin-Almanza finalmente dijo que terminó pagando solo la tarifa adicional por su hija y que publicó el tuit porque lo encontró divertido).

Y estaban las tensiones entre la agrupación y la desagregación con las que lidian todas las aerolíneas, particularmente en este caso, un debate sobre si los padres tienen que pagar más para asegurarse de que sus hijos tengan un asiento junto a ellos en vuelos llenos de gente.

Notará que ese último comentario fue en realidad una queja sobre United en un hilo de Delta Air Lines. Y en cierto modo, esa es la gran lección que todo líder empresarial de cualquier industria debería aprender.

Las aerolíneas, por mucho que odien cuando señalo esto, todas ofrecen esencialmente el mismo producto.

Todos serán examinados norte Grado si hacen algo para destacar.

Y mientras escribo en mi eBook gratuito, Vuelo en clase ejecutiva: 12 reglas para ejecutivos de aerolíneas de EE. UU.son un desfile continuo de estudios de casos al estilo de las escuelas de negocios de los que es fácil aprender.

Vale la pena su atención como líder empresarial. Porque, como podría haber dicho Stefon: “Esta industria ha todos.”

Las opiniones expresadas aquí por los columnistas de Heaven32 son propias y no de Heaven32.

\n This is how the whole thing started, with a tweet by a Delta Air Lines passenger named Emily Galvin-Almanza, trolling Delta for having apparently told her that her daughter could only accompany her in a Delta SkyMiles lounge without a fee if her child had her own credit card. \n
\n That short tweet prompted thousands of reactions and comments. \n A few fellow passengers agreed with her about the absurdity, more passengers told Galvin-Almanza she should have been willing to pay a fee to bring her child into the lounge, and many more took the opportunity to complain about nearly every other thing there is to complain about in air travel this summer. \n Periodically, in what turned into a great example of comic relief, Delta's customer service Twitter account would chime in asking how Delta could help. \n But each time, the account did so in a way that made it seem that whoever was behind it hadn't noticed any of the context. \n
\n In fairness, this thread probably could have erupted in response to a passenger complaint about almost any airline. \n I guess it was just Delta's turn; while I reached out to Delta Air Lines a few times asking for comment or context, I never heard back.  \n Still, if I were an airline analyst or executive trying to gauge the near future of air travel in the United States -- on Delta Air Lines or any carrier -- I think I'd read every single response. \n Among the hundreds of  replies as of this writing, to say nothing of the 172,300 \"likes\" on the thread, we saw topics like the following: \n A pithy, 11-word tweet summing up the once-controversial idea that the airlines' most lucrative business  according to some analysts isn't flying; it's selling frequent flyer miles to banks, which use them to entice people to open credit card accounts. \n
\n From there, we dove into the ongoing tension between long-time frequent flyers and other newer passengers over who gets to use SkyMiles lounges. (\"We're not a WeWork,\" Claude Roussel, managing director of Delta Sky Club, said recently when Delta changed its rules to put limits on how long eligible passengers can use the lounges.) \n Some passengers on the Twitter thread agreed:  \n
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  • \"It's 40 bucks? And you're acting like they are making your kid sit outside without you. Pay and all go in, or don't and wait at the gate.   My partner has the Amex platinum, mines gold.  Sometimes I go, sometimes I don't.\"
  • \t
  • \"Your 4 year old not getting in for free to the premium lounge isn't the outrage u think it is.\"
\n
\n (Galvin-Almanza eventually said she ultimately did just paid the extra fee for her daughter, and that she posted the tweet because she thought it was funny.) \n And, there was the bundling and unbundling tension that all airlines deal with -- specifically in this case a debate over whether parents should have to pay extra in order to ensure that their children have seats next to them on crowded flights. \n
\n You'll note that this last comment was actually a complaint about United within a Delta Air Lines thread. And in a way, that's the big point that any business leader in any industry should take away. \n The airlines -- as much as they hate it when I point it out -- all offer basically the same product. \n They all get scrutinized to the nth degree when they do anyting to stand out. \n And, as I write in my free ebook, Flying Business Class: 12 Rules for Leaders in the U.S. Airlines, they're a nonstop parade of business school-style case studies that are easy to learn from. \n It's well worth your attention as a business leader. 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