The United CEO provides that airlines in difficulty in difficulty will make their doors

Long Beach, California – United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby predicted that Spirit Airlines predicts its activities and said the airline model at a reduced price in the past was dead.

Spirit Airlines filed a request for protection against the bankruptcy of Chapter 11 at the end of last month for the second time in a year, after having failed to make sufficient changes during his first attempt to no longer have reached the lower demand for customers and persistent costs when he appeared in March.

Speaking during the conference of the association’s passenger experience of the airline here, Kirby was questioned by the moderator, journalist and podcaster Brian Stern, why he thought that Spirit was going to close. The CEO replied: “Because I am good in mathematics.”

Spirit recently reduced a dozen destinations while his rivals like United, JetBlue Airways and colleague reduction carrier Airlines Frontier have added flights to cities in cities.

Kirby criticized airlines at reduced prices for years, saying that the strong growth on which they were based to help feed the profits was not durable. On Thursday, he was also suppressed against the low price and fresh price billing model for everything else, saying that it sometimes surprised customers.

“You cannot have a business model that customers hate. You cannot have a business model based on” screw the client “,” said Kirby on Thursday.

Kirby also criticized the model at another aviation event in Washington, DC on Wednesday, triggering a battle with the mind.

“Scott is finally right about something – these are customers,” an article on the X Spirit account said on Wednesday after Kirby’s first comments. “Our guests love low prices, in particular our new options for spirit and first quality. This is perhaps why United Managers cannot help jump on us.”

Spirit did not comment more on Kirby’s remarks on Thursday.

Frontier and Spirit began to offer more packages that include seats and luggage as well as higher -end offers such as seats with more personal space. A major challenge for airlines at reduced prices is the success of larger rivals with basic economic prices, which also often come with more equipment, such as hand luggage and selection of seats, as well as a wider international network.

The CEO of Frontier, Barry Biffle, at the end of last month, said that the carrier wanted to become the best ultra-low cost carrier in the United States, he is currently a second of the mind, although Sprit has decreased in the past year.

Kirby de United assimilated him to be the “last man on a flowing ship”.

“The business model does not work,” he continued. Frontier did not immediately comment.