The biggest news out of the meeting: that United had changed its mind about bringing its annual shareholders' meeting to Cleveland and is instead going to host it in Chicago.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Officials from United Airlines, including Jim Compton, vice chairman and chief revenue officer, met Monday morning with reporters and editors from The Plain Dealer and the Northeast Ohio Media Group to talk about the company's decision to strip Cleveland Hopkins International Airport of its status as United's smallest hub.
View full sizeJim Compton, Vice Chairman and Chief Revenue Officer Others at the meeting included: Evan Koppel, the Cleveland-based regional sales director for United's Midwest Division; Nene Foxhall, Executive Vice President of Community and Government Affairs; and Rahsaan Johnson, the Chicago-based director of public relations.
The biggest news out of the meeting: that United had changed its mind about bringing its annual shareholders' meeting to Cleveland and is instead going to host it in Chicago.
Last year's announcement that United would bring its executives and employees to Cleveland this June was widely seen as a sign that the airline was pleased with local efforts to keep the hub here, as well as a big economic win for a city trying to attract bigger national conventions.
Compton and others said they had spoken with United employees at Hopkins this morning and were going to talk to more employees this afternoon. Besides The Plain Dealer, they were also going to talk to the Greater Cleveland Partnership, which launched the campaign "United for the Hub."
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