{"id":285022,"date":"2025-09-16T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/could-olympics-be-bad-for-airlines-la-united-ceo-seems-to-think-so\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:16","slug":"could-the-olympics-be-bad-for-airlines-in-la-uniteds-cfo-seems-to-think-so-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=285022","title":{"rendered":"Could The Olympics Be Bad For Airlines In LA? United\u2019s CFO Seems To Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that might surprise some industry enthusiasts, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> (NYSE: UAL) CEO Scott Kirby recently argued that the Olympic Games will be a net negative for airlines in <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"140663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/los-angeles\/\"  >Los Angeles<\/a><\/span>, as core business travel patterns will freeze due to the leisure-driven demand that will pull travelers to the city. Kirby&#8217;s argument here is supported by the fact that corporate clients tend to impose travel freezes during the games and avoid host cities due to overcrowding, eroding high-yield revenue streams as leisure demand rises considerably. This will shift the price mix towards cost-sensitive tourists, which will put pressure on yield and fill seats with lower ancillary spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics are expected to lead to an influx of passengers in Los Angeles.<\/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":[396,476,1003,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285022","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=285022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285167,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285022\/revisions\/285167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}