'Disastrous response that made things worse': UK PR experts lay into United Airlines and its precarious CEO

PR professionals have condemned United Airlines and its CEO for having "gotten everything wrong" and brought about "one of the most vitriolic online reactions to a communications crisis ever" in its response to news of a passenger being violently dragged off one of its planes.

by Sam Burne James

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