{"id":588637,"date":"2023-07-03T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=588637"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:34:33","slug":"passengers-were-stuck-because-united-airlines-canceled-their-flights-the-ceo-took-a-private-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passengers-were-stuck-because-united-airlines-canceled-their-flights-the-ceo-took-a-private-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers were stuck because United Airlines canceled their flights. The CEO took a private plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,\u201d Kirby said in a statement issued by the airline. \u201cI sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days \u2014 often through severe weather \u2014 to take care of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights. \u201cTaking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,\u201d Kirby said in a statement issued by the airline. \u201cI sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days \u2014 often through severe weather \u2014 to take care of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}