Well that’s a lot of upper class privilege. Must be nice to go supervise employees making pennies a day.
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Apple Buys 50 Business Class Seats From San Francisco to Shanghai Every Day
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First, this article may refer to 50 seats both ways. There are only 84 biz class seats on United from SFO to Shangai per day so very unlikely Apple takes that many seats. Second, I feel bad for Apple employees that have to fly United. Nothing to remember there.
It seems plausible that United mean both ways (why not make the number larger), and that it’s an average, not every single day. This means Apple accounts for 30% of their business class seats between SFO and PVG, which seems plausible.
Facetime for me is hit and miss whether i get connected or not. Well usually more of a miss.
My mum has resorted to using facebook messenger to get me.
Not sure what is going on with not being able to be connected. I did get her to try again last week and it connected ok.
Maybe Apple gets the same issue so they have to fly people out there instead
No idea why they need to send 50 people a day. Hold on a sec, I've figured it out. Previous year they used to send out 100 people a day to help build the phones, now they only need to send out 50 because of the projected sales did not match actual sales.
it helps get the creative juices flowing
And what creative juices are you referring to? I'm not aware of any creativity within Apple at present.
Good eyes. It is very hard to make it out but that's exactly what it looks like. I can only assume those banners were for some internal conference or meeting, they look like the kind of internal marketing bumf companies produce, and someone got careless.
I don't think Apple is going to be very happy about this.
Thank you anonymous internet poster. For a minute I almost believe the article supported with photos of United's marketing materials. Close call.
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50 per day according to the article
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Right they should be using hot air balloons instead.
Heads should roll - Apple should fire United and fly Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific only
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I am sure you are joking! As McEnroe said, "You, cannot be serious!"
Hope you don't expect Apple to go back and forth by sailing ships.
Bottom of banner (in super small print) says confidential information...not to be shared outside of United... Uh oh...
Nothing like saying "Climate change is real and that everyone shares a responsibility" and then turn around and fly that much.
America doesn’t have the number of people needed or the skilled labor to do anything close to what Hon Hai is doing for Apple.
Who says Apple is not being green? They accumulated a lot of green $$s.
Dirty secret? Seriously? Such drama.
When your company manufactures, test, and ships 600,00+ iPhones every day (on the average), and has multiple R&D centers, along with multiple contact manufacturing sites with Apple employee representation, and many overseas engineering groups, 50 fights a day sounds very reasonable.
There are no other options if you need to be there. Video conferencing only works for limited situations. I suspect you are not aware of Apple's size.
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I had no idea so many members here knew how to operate an overseas factory!
My uncle does this for a living, there’s aspects of mass manufacturing that would boggle the mind. For instance, what it takes to figure out why screw x12 is only being turned 23 times instead of the specc’d 25 and how to correct it without shutting down a line churning out 30K+ components a day.
My uncle does this for a living, there’s aspects of mass manufacturing that would boggle the mind. For instance, what it takes to figure out why screw x12 is only being turned 23 times instead of the specc’d 25 and how to correct it without shutting down a line churning out 30K+ components a day.
This seems like account suicide by United - let alone have it printed up and displayed in the airport.....maybe this isn't real?
I think the faux outrage and drama in this thread is pretty funny. I wonder if the people outraged even believe half of what they're posting? Nothing about this is in any way out of the ordinary for a larger company, let alone one of the world's largest.
It is fake outrage. People saying United is crappiest airline when they probably never flown business class in their entire life. The service is upfront is real good, have fun sleeping upright in the back while some of us have a bed upfront.
Why would United's marketing team think it's a good idea to disclose that Apple buys 50 business class seats daily, or to publicly discuss where big companies are traveling the most? If I'm a tech executive, United thinks I'm supposed to be impressed by the figures but in actuality their marketing department looks sophomoric for disclosing what should be private client information.
Bush league!
Bush league!
The title of this MacRumors post says "San Francisco to Shanghai," but the poster in the picture simply wrote "SFO-PVG." That "-" sign can be interpreted as both ways, not just SFO to PVG. If it means both ways, than only 25 seats SFO to PVG on average each day. This sounds way more plausible.
Another possibility is that although UA has two flights each day, the number includes other codeshare flights sold under UA. I don't know if there are such codeshare flights.
Nonetheless, 25 business seats going out per day are very impressive.