United Airlines CE Oscar Munoz is a beloved figure — at least, as far as more than 85,000 employees who work for him are concerned. That fact was made clear in job site Glassdoor's recently released 2017 ranking of the world's top 100 CEs in the site's annual Employees' Choice Awards. Munoz ranked 18th on the Glassdoor list, the highest of any airline CE named in the survey. Glassdoor's data is based on anonymous employee feedback about CEs around the world collected from May 2, 2016, through May 1, 2017, a period that would have included the infamous man-dragged-from-plane incident on a United Express flight in early April of this year. In the survey, Munoz scored an approval rating of 96%, well above the average 67 % approval rating for all CEs in the report. <br/>
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United Airlines has won a lawsuit against a Canadian professor who for the past 20 years has catalogued complaints against the airline on Untied.com. A judge in Canada's Federal Court in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday found the website violates the airline's trademarks and copyright and granted United an injunction preventing Jeremy Cooperstock, who runs the website, from using the airline's intellectual property. "We are pleased with the court's decision. We have always maintained that Mr. Cooperstock should be able to voice his opinions, and our case was to protect United customers and avoid confusion by asking him to not use our intellectual property on his website and related channels," United said. Cooperstock accused the airline of using the case to try to shut down a source of criticism and vowed to appeal. <br/>
TAP Portugal's president said Monday he is considering asking authorities to order that all drones in the country be grounded, following a series of near-misses with commercial aircraft. Fernando Pinto said such an appeal could set off a worldwide movement against the devices. Around the world, the number of near-misses with aircraft has increased dramatically in recent years as the popularity of drones has grown. A TAP plane with 74 passengers almost collided with a drone as it approached Lisbon airport Sunday evening, air traffic control company NAV said. The drone came to within 50 meters of the right wing when the aircraft was at an altitude of 900 meters. Lisbon airport is inside the city. Planes fly low over downtown Lisbon rooftops when landing, and a loss of control could spin an aircraft into a densely-populated area. <br/>