A 2025 Thanksgiving message to employees from United Airlines’ CEO Scott Kirby sounds a familiar refrain: United is the best airline in the world. It’s clear to me what Kirby is going here and I can hardly blame him.
As we’ve gone through this year, there’s been some stuff that happened to impact United than really almost any year that I can remember. But we have the absolute best people of any airline in the world. And all of you have just kept going like nothing was happening — whether it was here in Newark, the issues we had this summer, or the recent shutdown. Just done an amazing job of taking care of each other and taking care of the customers, and we’ve clearly become the best airline in the world.
And when all of you have my back, it gives me the ability to make sure that we’re focused on helping the FAA overcome some of these issues, working in Washington, DC, but most importantly, staying focused on the long term. Whether it’s buying new airplanes, taking care of all the people at United, putting Starlink on airplanes, investing in technology, really staying focused on the long term.
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