{"id":254216,"date":"2025-07-21T02:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-chief-ryanair-only-successful-low-cost-airline\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:56:57","slug":"united-airlines-chief-believes-this-is-the-worlds-only-successful-low-cost-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=254216","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Chief Believes This Is The World&#8217;s Only Successful Low-Cost Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent earnings call, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby praised Irish low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ryanair\/\"  >Ryanair<\/a><\/span> as &#8220;<em>the only remaining successful LCC around the globe<\/em>&#8221; for sticking true to its strategy of avoiding high-cost airports. His analysis came as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255402\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/low-cost-carrier\/\"  >low-cost carriers<\/a><\/span> in the US make major changes to their operations and fare structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost airlines in the US are making huge changes amid shifting market conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1041,1368,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-ryanair","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254217,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254216\/revisions\/254217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}