Hoton United Airlines ya yi kaca-kaca a bazarar da ta gabata lokacin da mawaki dan kasar Canada Dave Carroll ya saka wani faifan waka a YouTube.com game da yadda masu rike da kaya United suka karya gitarsa a lokacin da yake kan hanya a filin jirgin sama na O'Hare na Chicago.
Daga baya wakilan United sun gana da Carroll don yin zaman lafiya, amma an yi barna. Bidiyon ya yi kamari kuma an gan shi kusan sau miliyan 8 akan YouTube.com.
Yanzu haka United ta sake zage-zage a Intanet, a wannan karon ta hannun Joe Lotus, wani lauya kuma mai keken keke wanda ya kaddamar da wani shafin Facebook wanda ya caccaki kamfanin jirgin sama kan cajin dala 175 hanya daya don duba keke.
Lotus ya fara shafin (United Airlines Abin Ba'a ne don Cajin $ 175 kowace Hanya don Tafiya Tare da Keke) a ranar 10 ga Fabrairu. Duk da tsayin suna, ya riga yana da mambobi fiye da 5,000.
Sabanin haka, shafin Facebook da United Airlines ya kaddamar yana da mambobi kasa da 2,000.
Lotus, wani mazaunin Chicago da ke fafatawa a gasar triathlon, ya ce ya kirkiro shafin Facebook ne bayan ya fahimci cewa daukar babur din nasa zai kashe masa karin dala 350 na tafiya zagaye a United. A halin yanzu, kamfanonin jiragen sama irin su Kudu maso Yamma, JetBlue, Alaska da Virgin America yawanci suna cajin $50 kowace hanya don duba keke.
Amma Lotus ba wani takaici ba ne na tattalin arziki. Shi memba ne na United Red Carpet Club wanda ya yi tafiya da yawa a United har ya sami matsayi na farko na zartarwa shekaru hudu a jere.
"Sau da yawa fiye da haka, farashin keken ya fi na jirgin sama," in ji shi.
United, Lotus ya nuna, kuma abokin haɗin gwiwa ne na Amurka Cycling, hukumar gudanarwar gasar tseren keke a Amurka.
Andrea Smith, mai magana da yawun Amurka Cycling, ta ce haɗin gwiwar yana nufin cewa mambobin kungiyar sun sami rangwamen kashi 10 lokacin da suka tashi a United. Amma ta tausaya wa masu keken da dole ne su biya kuɗin dalar Amurka 175.
"Abin takaici ne kuma muna matukar jin dadin hakan," in ji ta.
Dangane da sukar da aka yi, jami'an United sun ce za su yi nazari kan kudin safarar babur.
"A ƙarshen rana, abin da kafofin watsa labarun ke nufi - don samun ra'ayi," in ji mai magana da yawun kamfanin jirgin sama Robin Urbanski.
ABUBUWAN DA ZA KU GUDU DAGA WANNAN LABARI:
- Lotus, a Chicago resident who competes in triathlons, said he created the Facebook page after he realized that taking his bike along would cost him an extra $350 for a round trip on United.
- He is a United Red Carpet Club member who has flown so much on United that he earned the premier executive status four years in a row.
- Yanzu haka United ta sake zage-zage a Intanet, a wannan karon ta hannun Joe Lotus, wani lauya kuma mai keken keke wanda ya kaddamar da wani shafin Facebook wanda ya caccaki kamfanin jirgin sama kan cajin dala 175 hanya daya don duba keke.
