How United Let It Slip That Apple Is Its Biggest Corporate Client
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A list of the airline’s top clients showed up on Twitter Friday, with Apple taking the top spot. This is bad news for United — especially if Apple is out shopping for a new preferred airline today.
It’s no secret that Apple is the top account of United Airlines. At least, not anymore: United messed up by disclosing a list of its top corporate clients, and a photo of the list has since made its way around Twitter.
The photo reveals that Apple spends $150 million with United every year, and buys 50 business class seats daily on the San Francisco-to-Shanghai, That route alone delivers $35 million in revenue a year to United from Apple.
The photo also lists other big companies as frequent flyers, including Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, small words at the
