Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

United did not lobby to stop the Jetblue Spirit merger. Quite the opposite. Kirby supported it publicly numerous times and rallied against the DOJ and FTC decision to challenge the merger.. Here is one of his quotes at an aviation conference "To say an airline can't combine, to be fifth largest in the world when scale matters, if I was Robin, I'd be spitting mad. That does not seem fair."

https://airlineweekly.skift.com/2023...ce-department/