United Airlines is not a serious corporation, which is scary: CEO is a leftist’s leftist, who really does want to transform one of the nation’s largest airlines in very disturbing ways

American Thinker ^ | 01/18/2024 | Andrea Widburg

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When United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby talks, people should listen. This isn’t because he’s a man of wisdom, insight, or integrity. It’s because he’s in charge of one of America’s largest commercial airlines, so the changes he proposes could have disastrous outcomes for all of us.

According to Wikipedia, which has information through the end of 2022, United Airlines transported 144,300,000 passengers over the year. According to another source, in just the first quarter of 2023, it transported 36.8 million people and offered 65.7 Available Seat Miles, making it the fastest-growing commercial airline in America over that time period. No matter how you rate it, United is a big deal, and it transports lots of people across America and around the globe.

That’s why we should be paying attention to its CEO, Scott Kirby. On paper, he’s everything you’d expect from the chairman of a major American airline. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1989 and then got a Masters of Science from George Washington in operations research. He also worked at the Pentagon in the 1990s as a Budget Analyst for the Defense Secretary. Once he entered the private sector, he continued to be a planner, working on scheduling, marketing, sales, etc. He became the United CEO in 2016. Personally, he’s white, married, has seven children, donates to both Republican and Democrat politicians, and supported the long-forgotten Steve Bullock, who briefly threw his hat in the Democrat party ring during the 2020 presidential campaign.

Looked at this way, you couldn’t find a more generic CEO than Kirby. And yet there’s so much more to the man, and that more is that he is truly Mr. DEI.

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In 2021, Kirby mandated COVID vaccines for all U.S.-based employees (almost 67,000 of them). He claimed it was because he saw so many unvaccinated people die. Apparently, it didn’t occur to him that he should let individuals make the choice. If you work for United, you did it Scott Kirby’s way or found yourself unemployed.

Kirby is also all-in on so-called transgenderism. For example, in 2020, United was all-in on the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” during which it “celebrated” a man named Kayleigh Scott, who asserted that he was, in fact, a woman. Sadly for Scott, accommodating his mental illness rather than addressing it didn’t change the reality of living an artificial life, for he killed himself just three years later.

The solicitude Kirby’s airline has for so-called transgender people may be tied to the fact that Kirby himself seems to have a predilection for dressing up in women’s clothes and parading around in public:

This is Scott Kirby, the CEO of @united. He likes to dress up in drag. United hired a drag queen to be their CEO and now United has turned their focus to incorporating drag into their business and sponsoring drag shows.


https://t.co/Hhzd5o6SyN pic.twitter.com/9tqkjTfVvs — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024

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[Ann Archy]

OMG!!! EVIL and IDIOCY ALL IN ONE!!

[Ex-Con777]

Kirby complained about too many White men working for United. I helped him out by retiring early. I challenge him as a White man to follow my lead and retire immediately.

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[PGR88]

donates to both Republican and Democrat politicians, and supported the long-forgotten Steve Bullock, who briefly threw his hat in the Democrat party ring during the 2020 presidential campaign.

I know who Steve Bullock is! He actually got more Democrat primary votes than, and his 2020 campaign actually lasted longer than Kamala Harris'. Same with a nobody named Joe Sestak - actually performed BETTER than Kamala Harris

It just shows: how much Kamala is disliked, what a fake sock-puppet Kamala Harris is, and how far you can go with the deep-state behind you.

[DIRTYSECRET]

They shouda let it go bankrupt the last time.

[momincombatboots]

But ESPN, part of woke Disney says they have an awesome app. Not using them for our trip.

[nd76]

A big problem for guys like Kirby and Ed Bastian, the CEO at Delta, is that they perceive that their customer base lives in liberal bastions such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Boston, and therefore these airline CEOs have to represent themselves as “woke” so that it won’t hack off their customers.

Therefore, I take their public statements with a grain of salt; they’ve got to talk the talk on crap like electric airplanes and sustainable aircraft fuel, while at the same time running their airlines based on a reality check.

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Many think that the market will bankrupt these companies because they are not making profits. Will the mutual and hedge funds focus on DEI programs over profits when determining investments? The government can also subsidize this effort.

[webheart]

Yeah you have a point. CEOs need to learn how to make their customers happy and being able to dress up as a woman and act in a sexualized manner can be valuable skills.

[Kriggerel]

United also breaks guitars...

[ProgressingAmerica]

Kirby is exactly why being a CEO alone is not a good qualification for President.

“He can run the country like running a business”

Great slogan. Poor delivery.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

If you say, “I have a question” when you bump up against these maniacs you are immediately labeled a homo-phobic racist. So there are no speed bumps for the clinically insane woke quota hires.

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