United tries to join in with viral nugget tweet, gets savagely roasted
It's not a good year for United, as everyone knows, and even their genuine PR attempts to get their reputation back up are being mocked relentlessly.
In April, Carter Wilkerson went on a mission to achieve 18 million retweets in order to get a year's supply of Wendy's chicken nuggets and United offered him a free flight.
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When the teenager made history with the most retweeted tweet of all time, the airline thought it was a good idea to jump on the bandwagon and remind him of the deal:
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Naturally, people were not having it:
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United Airlines came under fire after a video of a man being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight surfaced online.
The company was earlier criticised for banning two girls wearing leggings from a flight.
In the last PR disaster, a giant rabbit named Simon died on a United London-to-Chicago flight.
