{"id":440303,"date":"2026-05-28T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-scott-kirby-rules-out-future-mergers-american-rebuff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:43:19","slug":"idiotic-united-airlines-scott-kirby-rules-out-future-mergers-after-americans-rebuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=440303","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIdiotic\u201d: United Airlines\u2019 Scott Kirby Rules Out Future Mergers After American\u2019s Rebuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 backed down on any potential United Airlines merger in the foreseeable future, just weeks after he mooted that a merger between <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> and <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> could work. Chief Executive Officer at United, Kirby previously worked for American Airlines, and Kirby&#8217;s comments suggested that the only &#8216;big transaction&#8217; that would make sense for United to pursue purchasing or merging with another airline would be that of Fort Worth-based American Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has abruptly changed course on airline mergers, just weeks after suggesting a merger with 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":[396,1149,476,636,6506,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-merger","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","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\/440303","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=440303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440308,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440303\/revisions\/440308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}