United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is a very smart, but increasingly strange and unpredictable, leader. He does a great job propelling his airline in the right direction, but I feel like he’s saying more and more things that make you scratch your head, and make you wonder if he is just getting a bit of a God complex, or whether he’s trolling, gaslighting, or what not. Here’s the latest example of that.
However, the level of damage such consolidation would do to aviation in the United States is unthinkable. Nonetheless, Kirby even publicly made his case, using some highly questionable, patriotic “trade deficit” argument (which I guess might resonate with Trump, but otherwise isn’t very sound logic).
Many of us wondered if this was all some sort of a foot in the door approach to get approval for a deal for United to acquire JetBlue. After all, that’s something that has been suggested for a very long time, and there have been questions about the odds of that getting regulatory approval. With Spirit having recently liquidated, I’d argue there has never been a better time for that approval to be likely.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
