







United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, lost hearts and minds this week by going after discount airlines that threaten his business model.
Kirby made remarks suggesting the discount airline model was no longer sustainable.
The CEO of Frontier Airlines, Barry Biffle, pushed back against Kirby's remarks.
“That’s cute,” Biffle said Wednesday at the Skift Global Forum, a travel conference in New York. “If he’s good at math he would understand that we have a [flight] oversupply issue in the United States.”
Biffle’s comments were a response to United CEO Scott Kirby, who said last week at an airline conference in Long Beach, California, that he thought the largest U.S. discounter, Spirit Airlines, would go out of business. Spirit in August entered its second bankruptcy in less than a year after failing to find sturdy financial footing, reported CNBC.
When Kirby was asked why he thought Spirit would shut down, he responded, “Because I’m good at math.”
Kirby added that if Biffle wants Frontier to be the largest of the U.S. discount carriers, then he’s going to be the “last man standing on a sinking ship," added CNBC.
This comes from a CEO who pushed the Covid vaccine on his employees to deadly effect.







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