And it is that the tickets bought by Apple in business class cost the company about 150 million dollars per year and the United Airlines company, leaked it by mistake on its official Twitter account. The information that was shown as "confidential" has already been removed from the social network and the airline company offered all the information to the companies affected by this leak.
The truth is that the flights of the different companies such as: Facebook, Roche or Google among other large companies, large amounts of money are also spent on these flights and it is normal considering that the main production chains are located in these Asian countries.
There is no doubt that Shanghai is the connecting point to Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, so it is clear that the flights are destined for cities where executives and engineers visit the production and distribution lines with which they work to manufacture Macs, iPhones, iPads and other devices.
The information about these flights and the cost they entail for companies like Apple, was filtered by LAflyer and it is no longer available as we can see in the tweet:
Curious who they are @United largest global corporate accounts? @Apple is in the top spot and contributes very much to the success of SFO international flying especially the Shanghai service #UnitedAirlines #United # Apple #SFO #PVG #Shanghai #China pic.twitter.com/HNvIrz8wDg
- LAflyer (@LAflyr) January 11, 2019
As It is not normal for this type of data to be published since it is confidential information and therefore United Airlines, apologizes to the affected companies and announces that they will review the protocols so that this does not happen again. On the other hand, the CEO of Apple is the only employee (as is evident) who does not travel on these flights and does so with his private jet as required by the Apple board of directors, so the CEO spent a little more than 2018 in 294.082 dollars on their private flights to China.
