Posts Tagged ‘Airlines’

Ratings Reveal Which Airlines To Fly Or Avoid This Holiday Season

With all the madness that comes with the holiday season, the last thing that any of us who are planning to travel want to deal with is the Scrooges in the airlines industry. In an effort to help you visit family and friends in the jovial spirit you intended, Glassdoor gives insights into what airlines employees recommend.

This Glassdoor report may also be particularly useful given the 2009 JD Power study that shows overall customer satisfaction in 2009 has declined for a third consecutive year, now at a four-year low. The decline is driven by decreased passenger satisfaction with in-flight services, flight crew and costs and fees, compared with 2008.

First, insight into where employees are least satisfied among airline carriers that have also been evaluated by JD Power. United Airlines tops that list — scoring the lowest according JD Power and employee reviews on Glassdoor. The legacy carrier rates 2.0 according to JD Power and just garners a low 1.9 company rating according to employees.  American Airlines comes in as the second least favored airline by employees garnering a modest 2.7 company rating on Glassdoor and moderate JD Power rating (3.0). Third lowest rated airline among employees is Air Canada which ...

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Southwest and Continental Score Highest with Employees

For anyone who has ever traveled by plane, you know that sometimes there seems to be no getting around a delayed flight or avoiding an unfortunate loss in luggage. But what we also know is it’s the people who work for the airlines that can make the hassles during our travels just a little bit easier.
With Thanksgiving just a day away, the airports are expected to be a little more hectic than usual. So with that in mind, we wanted to find out what airline employees thought were the best carriers to work for and see if it ranks even to JD Power’s airline customer satisfaction ratings. And does a happy airline employee mean a happy customer?

In terms of employee satisfaction, Southwest ranked the highest low-cost airline and Continental received top score as traditional network leader. But when it comes to customer satisfaction, JD Power reports that JetBlue ranks #1 for low-cost airlines and Alaska takes the lead as the traditional network airline. As we dug deeper into our airline employee reviews and ratings, we found four of the airlines (Alaska, JetBlue, Northwest and Southwest) had Glassdoor ratings that were significantly different than their JD Power ratings.  Although JD Power gave JetBlue ...

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