{"id":428899,"date":"2026-05-15T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/caught-with-a-competitor-united-ceo-spotted-on-american-airlines-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:25:18","slug":"caught-with-a-competitor-united-ceo-spotted-on-american-airlines-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428899","title":{"rendered":"Caught With A Competitor: United CEO Spotted On American Airlines Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines&#8217; Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby was somewhat recently spotted flying on an American Airlines flight, raising the question of why the CEO wouldn&#8217;t fly his own airline. Kirby was once the President of American, and although he left the company a decade ago, is said to still have access to lifetime privileges with the oneworld carrier, which includes free personal travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    United Airlines&#8217; Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby was somewhat recently spotted flying on an American Airlines fligh&#8230;<\/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":[396,476,636,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428899","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=428899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428900,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428899\/revisions\/428900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}