United CEO thinks Spirit Airlines is ready for – Jalopnik

If the financial health of a company were related to physical health, Spirit Airlines Intensive Care would be for livelihood support. The cheap courier has applied for bankruptcy twice this year. The situation is so terrible that Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, publicly predicted on Thursday that Spirit would go bankrupt. It is fair to say that the world’s second largest airline had no reason to fear the canary-yellow aircraft, but there was no reason to kick the courier while he rolled into a shallow grave.

Kirby predicted Spirit’s Death Knell while spoke in the US Chamber of Commerce Global Aviation Summit in Washington, DC, According to Flight Global. The United CEO added that this is the end for the cheap model as a whole because not enough customers want to pay for a terrible experience. Kirby said: “You cannot have a business model that customers hate. You cannot have had a business model based on ‘the customer fucking’. Although his statements are bone, it is clear that the best cheap airlines know that they should adapt to the changing landscape or die.

The last bankruptcy of Spirit at the end of August indicated that it is willing to do everything to deal with his $ 10 billion in obligations to survive. The airline has also announced that the next month ends to a dozen cities. Spirit, however, did not decide to take the contemptuous comments that lie and replied to Kirby His official X account:

“Scott is finally right about something -it’s all about customers. Our guests love low rates, especially our new mind and premium economy options. Maybe that’s why United managers cannot stop Japs about us.”

Spirit unintentionally proved Kirby in his brutal answer. Spirit leaves the model with one class that became omnipresent with the champions of the cheap model: Spirit, Frontier and Southwest. Yes, the Canary-Yellow Carrier is not the only one who has thrown the model away. Southwest Airlines decided that bags will no longer fly for free and at the same time add chairs with a premium part. The airline established in Houston is essentially trying to rise to the level of its mainline rivals, American, Delta and United. People just don’t want to be lured with a cheap ticket to just become more nickel.