Client Profile

United Airlines

Event Management and Construction

International

1992-Present

Chicago Scenic has been working on events and projects for United Airlines ever since they called on a Friday afternoon ten years ago asking Scenic to turn their terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport into a Parisian playground to celebrate their new direct flight to Paris that was to start in five days. From curbside check-in to the gate, Chicago Scenic put together a celebration that included mimes, accordian players, cancan dancers, and an Eiffel Tower to celebrate the first flight of United's nonstop service to Paris. Food service pavilions were created and themed, and banners were hung overnight so the first passengers to arrive for the flight would be greeted by gendarmes and organ grinders at curbside check-in and could continue into the terminal to sample French cuisine.

Since then Chicago Scenic has provided logistics and planning of the celebrations for many of United's route openings both at O'Hare and around the world, including Tokyo, Frankfort, London, and Sao Paulo. Chicago Scenic has also planned and staged various meetings and events for United's employees and customers ranging from sales meetings and press conferences to the presentation of Aretha Franklin at the 1996 Democratic National Convention celebration in Chicago's Grant Park.

Chicago Scenic also designed, built, and installed United's corporate television studios in order to recreate corporate boardrooms and offices for video presentations to their customers and employees.