That advertising slogan is from the mid 60's. That was back when people actually dressed to fly. ALL the employees who worked then are now retired with a small fraction of the retirement that they earned/were promised, thanks to Unted's faux bankruptcy. Now the US tax payers pay them thru PBGC, just like the steel workers and auto workers. PBGC is propped up by the government, because it loses 10's of billions $, each year.
i would be interested to know IF the employee was actually a United employee, or a low pay, untrained, no benefit contract worker? Seems that whenever United, or most airlines, have an incident, the "employees" involved, don't really work for the carrier. The airlines take the bad PR to save a few $$. IF the airlines had their way, they would have their names on the tickets, the advertising, and the airplanes, and EVERYONE would be a contract worker.