The boss of Frontier Airlines returns in the affirmation of the United CEO according to which the flight at low prices is near the extinction: “ it’s cute ”

Barry Biffle, the CEO of a low -cost carrier front, resumed his united counterpart for his comments predicting the end of the airlines and the budget flight industry as a whole.

“It’s cute,” said Biffle on Wednesday at the Skift Global Forum focused on travel, CNBC reported. “If he is good in mathematics, he would understand that we have an overexraction problem (in flight) in the United States.”

Biffle came to the defense of Spirit after the CEO of United, Scott Kirby, said that the low -cost airline, who had reported bankruptcy this year, was going to make their doors. When asked at a conference last week why he was so sure, Kirby replied: “Because I’m good at mathematics.”

Biffle’s ambition to have the frontier’s mind exceeded as a ultra-up-show coachery would make him the “last man on a flowing ship,” added Kirby.

In addition, when they were asked if the low -cost airlines like Frontier survive according to the additional capacity left by larger carriers like United, Biffle did not hay the words.

“It’s like the CEO of Nordstrom by saying” I allow customers to buy jeans from Walmart “.”

Biffle said that Frontier attracts people who may not have stolen otherwise, or who are trying to save on flight costs so that they can spend big on other items like luxury hotels. Biffle also boasted of the lower costs of Frontier: 7.50 cents per mile of available headquarters, not to mention the fuel, against 12.36 cents higher for United.

United Airlines and Frontier Airlines did not immediately respond to FortuneComment request.

UNITED CEO conflict with low cost flight

Kirby castigated low -cost carriers for years, and last week he disturbed their economic model again and the myriad of additional costs for everything, from hand baggage to priority boarding, saying: “You cannot have a business model predicted on` `to screw the customer ”.

Low -cost carriers have experienced difficulties in recent years thanks to cost increases, regulatory requests and a change in consumer preferences. Competition of the largest carriers, many of whom have introduced basic prices that compete with low -cost carriers, also brought these airlines.

Frontier was profitable for the first time in four years in 2024, but reported a net loss for the first six months of this year. The company was in red up to $ 70 million in the second quarter, but predicted higher growth in unit income in the third quarter would lay the foundations for a return to profitability in 2026.

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