{"id":286414,"date":"2025-09-18T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/scott-kirby-thinks-low-cost-airlines-are-dead-this-airline-ceo-thinks-he-is-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:00:16","slug":"scott-kirby-thinks-low-cost-airlines-are-dead-this-airline-ceo-thinks-hes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=286414","title":{"rendered":"Scott Kirby Thinks Low-Cost Airlines Are Dead; This Airline CEO Thinks He&#8217;s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 said that the ultra-low-cost carrier model is dying, and he predicted the imminent collapse of the now-bankrupt Spirit Airlines. In a statement to investors, Frontier Airlines (NYSE: ULCC) CEO Barry Biffle has a cold response to Scott Kirby, calling his comments &#8220;cute.&#8221; Biffle argued that the principal challenges facing the US industry are related to oversupply, not necessarily discount flying on its own. He cited a cost edge, arguing that the airline had a lower cost per available seat mile (CASM) than full-service airlines like United by a significant margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry leaders are butting heads.<\/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":[396,476,1003,1327,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-legacy-carriers","category-low-cost-airline","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286414","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=286414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286415,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286414\/revisions\/286415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}