{"id":283668,"date":"2025-09-14T03:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-chief-spirit-failed-experiment\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:14:34","slug":"united-chief-slams-spirit-airlines-as-being-a-failed-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=283668","title":{"rendered":"United Chief Slams Spirit Airlines As Being A &#8220;Failed&#8221; Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has predicted that <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"123427\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/spirit-airlines\/\"  >Spirit Airlines<\/a><\/span> will not remain in operation for long as the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259819\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ultra-low-cost-carriers\/\"  >Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier<\/a><\/span> labors under its second bankruptcy filing in 12 months. Kirby has been a strong critic of discount airlines during his tenure at United and called the business model &#8220;an interesting experiment&#8221; that had ultimately failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United will step in on over a dozen routes in anticipation of Spirit&#8217;s demise.<\/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":[396,476,1137,581,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-bankruptcy","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283668","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=283668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283669,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283668\/revisions\/283669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}