HTTP:: United Airlines Breaks Guitars Loses 180 Million
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Luggage mishaps are known to happen on airplanes, be it at the airport, or because of the way the packages are stored and transported. Either way, the flight company eventually owns up to them and finds some form of compensation for the respective passenger. This did not happen to Canadian singer Dave Carroll, who had his Taylor acoustic damaged on United Airlines and who took his plight to YouTube. United stock fell by ten percent because of it, amounting to a loss of $180 million, the Daily Mail informs. The incident occurred in 2008, when Carroll saw his guitar being thrown around by airport personnel before being loaded. As he arrived in Chicago, he saw that, indeed, his Taylor was broken, so he took his complaint to United Airlines. The company, in its turn, refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing and, after many months of attempts, the singer did the only thing he knew to get his revenge: made a song and a video of the whole thing and posted it on YouTube. “When air!
lines damage or lose their passenger’s luggage, they normally â€" perhaps grudgingly â€" end up paying back compensation of a few hundred pounds. But United Airlines are much more out of pocket in this case. The company has lost 10per cent of their share value â€" a massive $180million â€" after being blamed ...
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