Flanked by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby heaped praises on the Trump administration and echoed Republican calls to immediately reopen the government without strings attached. Folks, I see this as a 4D chess move for JetBlue, with a timeline that gives Kirby little room for error.
“We’ve minimized delays. Fewer than 2% of flights have been delayed because of air traffic control shortages, so they’ve done a great job. But, it’s putting on stress on people. It’s not fair to those people, it’s also putting stress on the economy. The first couple of weeks this had no impact on the economy, but as every day goes by, the impacts start to grow and airlines are a pretty good real-time indicator of the economy and we are start to see still minor, but steep booking impact and you see that happening in economy…you put the whole economy at risk.
“It has been 30 days and while I don’t have a position on which partisan side and how things should be settled with healthcare, it has been 30 days. I also think it its time to pass a clean CR. Use that as the opportunity to get into a room behind closed doors and negotiate hard on the real and substantive issues the American people want our politicians on both sides of the aisle to solve, but let’s get a clean CR and get that negotiation done behind closed doors without putting the American workers and the American economy at risk.”
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
