{"id":424827,"date":"2026-05-10T04:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-ceo-spotted-american-airlines-flight-dallas\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:38:17","slug":"caught-in-first-class-united-airlines-ceo-spotted-on-american-airlines-flight-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=424827","title":{"rendered":"Caught In First Class: United Airlines CEO Spotted On American Airlines Flight To Dallas"},"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> Chief Executive Officer <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/scott-kirby\/\"  >Scott Kirby<\/a><\/span> has been spotted flying on an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> aircraft to Dallas, raising the question of why the CEO wouldn&#8217;t fly his own airline. Kirby was once the President of American, where he now enjoys lifetime privileges with AA, including free personal travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlikely Alliance: United CEO&#8217;s Personal Connection to American Airlines.<\/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":[396,7480,476,636,1839,1453,6506,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-ceo","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-ceo","category-first-class","category-scott-kirby","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424827","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=424827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424827\/revisions\/424859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}