United CEO predicts struggling Spirit Airlines will go out of business

Long Beach, California – United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby estimated that Spirit Airlines had left work on Thursday, and he once said the profitable discount airline was dead.

After the first attempt, Spirit Airlines could not make a deep change enough to be met with high costs when it appeared in March, and when it appeared in March, the second episode was applied for the second bankruptcy protection for the second time in the end of last month.

When asked by a Kirby moderator, airline industry journalist and Podcaster Brian Sumers, he thought why Spirit would close, CEO replied: “Because I’m fine in mathematics.”

The soul has recently cut off a dozen destination, opponents like United, Jetblue Airways and other discount carrier Frontier Airlines They added flights to the Soul Service to cities.

Kirby criticized the discounts for years and said that their strong growth to help fuel profits is not sustainable. On Thursday, he frightened against the charging model of low wages and wages, saying that he sometimes surprised customers.

Kirby said on Thursday, “You can’t have a business model that customers hate. You can’t have a business model based on ‘screwing the customer’.” He said.

Kirby also criticized the model at a different aviation event on Washington DC on Wednesday and led to a war with the soul.

“Scott is finally right about something – everything is about customers,” he said, following Kirby’s first comments on Wednesday. “Our guests love low wages, especially our new spirit and premium economic options. Maybe that’s why United executives cannot stop binding about us.”

The soul did not comment more about Kirby’s lyrics on Thursday.

It has started to offer more luxurious offers such as Frontier and more bunch of seats, seats and luggage, and more personal seats. One of the biggest challenges for discount airlines is the success of larger competitors with the basic economic wages, which usually comes with more possibilities such as carrying bags and seat selection and a wider international network.

Frontier CEO Barry Biffle said that the carrier wants to be the best ultra -cost carrier in the USA late last month, but Sprit declined significantly last year.

Kirby from United equalized it as “the last man on a sinking ship”.

“The business model doesn’t work,” he continued. Frontier did not comment immediately.