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Scotty Kirby, a sad excuse for a CEO of United [aka Untied] Airlines begged for forgiveness for getting caught using his perks while the peons were dealing with chaos due to massive holiday delays over the weekend. Scotty has his own private jet and a carbon footprint only rivaled by Big Foot John 'Hair-plugs" Kerry and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
It's obvious that the learning curve for today's CEOs is as flat as Dylan Mulvaney and Rear Admiral Rachel Levine.
Gone are the days when we snuffies quietly accept the elite's sense of entitlement and their non-apology apologies like the one we saw with the Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, or the apology we now try to stomach by CEO of United Airlines Kirby after he took a private jet while his customers were stuck in airports for hours due to travel delays.
Gone are the days when we snuffies quietly accept the elite's sense of entitlement and their non-apology apologies like the one we saw with the Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, or the apology we now try to stomach by CEO of United Airlines Kirby after he took a private jet while his customers were stuck in airports for hours due to travel delays.
Americans have had it up to here!
‘Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,’ Kirby said in an insincere statement issued by the airline.
Airline passengers were stranded for days, waiting for space on flights to their destinations. Some travelers said they spent hours waiting in line for customer assistance or to find their checked bags.
Other airlines were able to recover and were essentially back on schedule by Friday. United, however, continued to struggle to catch up. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) predicted Friday would be the busiest travel day in more than three years.
KIrby was president for United AL since 2016 and became CEO in 2020.
He made his apology Friday, just as the weekend arrived and two days after the poo hit the fanjets. Airlines were greatly affected by severe weather: thunderstorms, high winds, UFOs. . .
His private jet was a symbolic middle finger to his customers.
‘Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,’ Kirby said in an insincere statement issued by the airline.
‘I sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days — often through severe weather — to take care of our customers,’ Kirby said in his 'aha' moment of a statement.
Kirby concluded by promising ‘to better demonstrate my respect for the dedication of our team members and the loyalty of our customers.’ But he may have had his fingers crossed.
Kirby was sorry he got caught doing what most of his customers could not do – he flew private because he couldn’t get a seat on a commercial flight. He paid for the private jet out of his own pocket, with the estimation of the cost of his trip being between $30,000 to $50,000. And he took along with him zero paid customers who may have been going to his destination, and rumor has it that when his private jet took off, he sat at the window and flipped them the bird.
Kirby concluded by promising ‘to better demonstrate my respect for the dedication of our team members and the loyalty of our customers.’ But he may have had his fingers crossed.
Kirby was sorry he got caught doing what most of his customers could not do – he flew private because he couldn’t get a seat on a commercial flight. He paid for the private jet out of his own pocket, with the estimation of the cost of his trip being between $30,000 to $50,000. And he took along with him zero paid customers who may have been going to his destination, and rumor has it that when his private jet took off, he sat at the window and flipped them the bird.
Airline passengers were stranded for days, waiting for space on flights to their destinations. Some travelers said they spent hours waiting in line for customer assistance or to find their checked bags.
Other airlines were able to recover and were essentially back on schedule by Friday. United, however, continued to struggle to catch up. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) predicted Friday would be the busiest travel day in more than three years.
United scrubbed about 520 mainline flights Thursday. On Friday evening, 236 of the roughly 430 U.S. flights that had been canceled were United flights, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking site.
“Our reliability continues to improve with far fewer cancellations today compared to previous days,” the airline said in a perfunctory statement, adding that most of Friday’s cancellations were made in advance.
United is also having problems with their employees. Pilots and flight attendants said the company's crew scheduling department has been understaffed and crew members are left in the dark about their reassignments.
“Our reliability continues to improve with far fewer cancellations today compared to previous days,” the airline said in a perfunctory statement, adding that most of Friday’s cancellations were made in advance.
United is also having problems with their employees. Pilots and flight attendants said the company's crew scheduling department has been understaffed and crew members are left in the dark about their reassignments.
It's like a Roseanne Rosannadanna situation: if it isn't this, it's that.
“The airline actually ‘lost’ crews in the system for days on end because there was such a significant breakdown in running the operation,” said Ken Diaz, president of the United chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. [In spite of Diaz's short name, he holds the record for the largest company ID badge.]
Kirby lives in Dallas with his second wife and their perfect children. He also has an address in Colorado and describes himself as a "climate change geek" in spite of the tons of carbon emissions his company produces daily. He wants to make the company "100 percent green" by 2025 but the only way that can be accomplished would be with huge winding rubber bands, because even electric jets would require environment-harming battery production and disposal, but like abortion, what the left sees, doesn't bother them.
Kirby is so freaking green-minded when it comes to everyone else, but he's just fine jetting privately and can afford it on his $10,000,000 annual salary.
