PR lessons from Scoot’s flight delay saga
Scoot In this guest post that first appeared on Digimind’s blog, the data intelligence firm suggests there are a few
PR lessons to be learned from Scoot’s 22 hour flight delay saga.On the evening of 20 June, a flight from Singapore
to Perth was delayed for more than 22 hours, making it the second flight delay in three days for the budget carrier.
Using our monitoring tool Digimind social, we put our listening ears on how Scoot handled the crisis on the
social media front, as well as what lessons we could learn from this incident.
1. Evidence speaks for itself on social media
With social media making it possible for news to spread like wildfire, first-hand accounts of passengers stranded at
the airport quickly caught attention online.
In particular, a YouTube video showing angry passengers demanding answers and compensation, after being made to
board and disembark the plane several times, highlighted their suffering as well as the airline’s incompetency in
handling the situation in an efficient and humane manner.
These few tweets show the dissatisfaction unfold on Twitter.