Using Get Human, I just got through to United Airlines in less than two minutes. Maybe everybody knows about this, but in case you don’t: https://gethuman.com/ provides you with shortcuts so that you can skip all the annoying robot voice requirements, and get a real person quickly at just about any of the large companies in the US.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
good to know. Thanks.
another thing I have heard folks say (don't know this personally), is if you are having no luck making personal contact with company rep,
make a "pointed" comment on one or more social media (twitter/facebook/etc), and most often the company will, within hours, reply on same with contact info to real person, etc.
Here's another way of getting the attention of United Airlines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo