Latest news with #JFK
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby slams the budget airline model: 'It's dead'
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby criticized the budget airline model in a recent interview. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's "Future of Everything" event, Kirby said the model was "dead." His comments came the same day United announced a new partnership with JetBlue. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby earlier this week took a shot at what he called the "crappy" budget airline model. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's "Future of Everything" event on Thursday, Kirby said the low-cost carrier model was "dead." "The model was screw the customer," he said. "It was like trick people, get them to buy, and get them to come, and then charge them a whole bunch of fees that they aren't expecting … disclosures buried in legalese," he continued. "Their problem is they got big enough that they needed repeat customers. They don't get them." Kirby's comments came the same day that United announced a new partnership with JetBlue, which many consider to be a budget carrier. The partnership, known as Blue Sky, will allow United to access slots for up to seven daily round-trip flights out of JFK's Terminal 6 as early as 2027. The deal, which is subject to regulatory review, will also allow customers to earn and use frequent flyer miles across both airlines, among other things. Kirby said on Thursday that JetBlue offered something different to traditional budget airlines. "JetBlue was founded in trying to be a better airline for customers. Budget airlines were founded in trying to have the absolute bare bones lowest cost," he said. "They may both be startups, but two polar-opposite business models." The exec was pressed on whether United had considered purchasing JetBlue. Laughing, Kirby said he was asked that "a lot" and that he was "reluctant" to do a merger. "Mergers are hard," he said. Going forward, he said United was focusing on its frequent flyers. "What we're really looking for is to have a bigger presence for our frequent flyers on both sides of the Hudson," he said. "To be bigger in places like Boston." Despite outperforming most of its peers in 2024, United announced in April that it would cut about 4% of its domestic capacity starting in July because of softening demand. Trump's tariffs caused some Canadians and other international travelers to cancel their summer vacations in the United States, which could mean trouble for domestic airlines. "The company's outlook is dependent on the macro environment, which the company believes is impossible to predict this year with any degree of confidence," the airline said. Read the original article on Business Insider Se produjo un error al recuperar la información Inicia sesión para acceder a tu portafolio Se produjo un error al recuperar la información Se produjo un error al recuperar la información Se produjo un error al recuperar la información Se produjo un error al recuperar la información
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
JFK Files: How Cuba's War Of Words Flooded The Americas
Join authors Dennis McCuistion and Dory Wiley for an explosive panel discussion at The Dallas Express' 'Who Killed JFK?' event on June 9, 2025. , , or today! The CIA feared that Cuba's true revolutionary export wasn't fighters—it was a playbook for turning a country's own resources against itself. Newly declassified intelligence files from the 1960s, released by President Donald Trump in March 2025 as part of the broader 'JFK Files' disclosure, detail extensive efforts by Fidel Castro's Cuba to spread communism across Latin America—not through mass invasions or military might, but by subverting nations from within. One such document from then-CIA Director John A. McCone to then-Senator John Stennis (D-MS) is marked 'Secret' and appears to be from the spring of 1963. The document outlines the CIA's assessment of Cuba's subversive strategy as a potent mix of ideological indoctrination, sabotage training, and psychological warfare. According to the report, Cuba offered revolutionaries from across Latin America a chillingly precise deal: 'Come to Cuba; we will pay your way, we will train you…in guerrilla warfare, in sabotage and in terrorism.' Though the Cubans generally avoided supplying weapons or personnel, they promised political support, training materials, demolition guides, secret communication techniques, and, in some cases, funding. The strategy focused on training guerrillas to be self-sufficient and to weaponize their surroundings. Pocket-sized manuals, such as '150 Questions on Guerrilla Warfare' by Spanish Civil War veteran Alberto Bayo, circulated widely. They instructed revolutionaries on how to craft explosives from household items and steal arms from government forces. CIA agents found versions of these texts adapted for countries like Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. In the early 1960s, the CIA leadership believed between 1,000 and 1,500 individuals from almost every Latin American country (except Uruguay) reportedly traveled to Cuba for ideological or guerrilla training. The Cuban government tried to obscure the movement, issuing visas on separate slips to avoid passport stamps and even providing falsified passports. American intelligence used agents within communist parties and foreign customs authorities to track and estimate the scale of this traffic, the director told the senator. The report highlights Cuba's two-pronged media campaign into the United States as an early extension of this subversive agenda. 'Radio Free Dixie,' hosted by North Carolina-born Robert F. Williams, was broadcast in English to Black Americans in the South, while 'The Friendly Voice of Cuba' reached a wider Southern audience. These programs, the CIA noted, could be heard clearly in Florida and across much of the Deep South and represented a subtle yet strategic psychological campaign aimed at undermining American unity. Castro's ambition, the report asserts, was to make Cuba the blueprint for the Latin American revolution. He famously stated in 1960 that he aimed to 'convert the Cordillera of the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of the American continent.' The Sierra Maestra was the mountain refuge from which Castro launched his successful revolution against Batista. 'Socialism,' he argued, could not afford to wait for democratic change—it had to be won by force. And yet, Cuban communism was not as militant as it might seem. The CIA noted that Castro often trod a careful line between the Soviet Union and Communist China. 'Castro's heart is in Peiping but his stomach is in Moscow,' one section reads, referencing the ideological tug-of-war between Chinese revolutionary zeal and Soviet pragmatism. While China promoted all-out militancy, the Soviets favored subversion through legal means. Castro attempted to serve both masters—adopting Chinese revolutionary theory but relying on Soviet material aid. Despite this ideological balancing act, the CIA classified the Cubans and Venezuelans as the only Communist parties in Latin America 'totally committed to terror and revolution.' Other parties, while ideologically aligned, preferred subversion, propaganda, and infiltration to outright violence—at least initially. Several revolutions swept through South America during the decades following Cuba's turn to communism, some succeeding and others collapsing. In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas ultimately overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979 with tactics reminiscent of the Cuban model. In Chile, Salvador Allende's Marxist government came to power democratically in 1970 but was overthrown in a military coup three years later. Guerrilla movements plagued Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia, with groups like the FARC and the Shining Path drawing from the ideological and tactical lineage traced back to Cuba's training camps and printed materials. Even where communist revolutions never took root—such as in Brazil, Ecuador, or Paraguay—leftist guerrilla groups launched campaigns of sabotage and terror, often mimicking Cuban tactics. Many of these movements were ultimately suppressed, but not before spreading fear and destabilization. Perhaps the most telling metric of Cuba's nonviolent infiltration was its printed word. 'It may be worth noting,' the CIA director wrote, 'that the postal and customs authorities in Panama are destroying on average 12 tons a month of Cuban propaganda.' Another 10 tons were reportedly confiscated monthly in Costa Rica. These materials, in the form of books, pamphlets, and ideological tracts, were seen as weapons of war. Despite accepting Soviet missiles and troops during the Cuban Missile Crisis—20,000 Soviet personnel were reportedly stationed in Cuba, according to one document—the island's long-term strategy was quieter and more insidious. The CIA concluded that Cuba's effort to spread communism through nonviolent means was far more effective than the Cuban effort to spread communism through violent means.
Travel Weekly
3 days ago
- Business
- Travel Weekly
JetBlue and United aim to take flight together with Blue Sky partnership
United and JetBlue will become partners. And United will be returning to New York JFK. Under an agreement announced Thursday, the two carriers will offer reciprocal loyalty point accrual and redemption, as well as reciprocal loyalty status privileges, such as early boarding, upgrades and free bags. Flyers will also be able to book United flights through JetBlue channels and vice versa. And JetBlue will trade arrival and departure trade slots at capacity-constrained JFK to United in exchange for increased access at Newark. United expects to begin flying up to seven daily roundtrips out of JFK in 2027, ending a hiatus that began in 2015, when United moved its entire New York metroplex long-haul operation to Newark. JetBlue expects to gain eight additional daily flights at Newark. The carriers have not announced a launch date for the partnership, which they are calling Blue Sky, but said some components could begin as soon as the fall. The tie-up, which had been widely anticipated by airline industry insiders, will give JetBlue customers access to more than 200 additional destinations around the globe, the airlines said. JetBlue has been struggling to achieve sustainable profitability in recent years, and they hope the United partnership helps turn the tide. The partnership will replace, on a more limited basis, JetBlue's brief Northeast Alliance with American Airlines in Boston and the New York area, which was blocked by antitrust regulators at the Justice Department in 2023. Along with offering United its sought-after re-entry into JFK, the partnership will give United customers access to JetBlue's network of approximately 180 daily JFK flights and approximately 130 Boston flights, including JetBlue's extensive Caribbean network. Importantly, and in a clear effort to avoid running afoul of antitrust regulators, the arrangement doesn't involve codesharing. Instead, the carriers will rely on an interline agreement for cross-airline traffic, meaning United and JetBlue will continue to publish and market flights separately under their own brand and flight numbers. There will be no revenue sharing or joint scheduling. In the ruling that ended the JetBlue-American Northeast Alliance, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin objected to the breadth of that alliance, which included codesharing, extensive revenue sharing and joint scheduling of most flights out of New York and Boston. Sorokin also said that a more limited partnership might have been allowable. Regulators, nevertheless, will have reason to review the United-JetBlue partnership for competitive concerns. United flew the most combined seats out of the New York area in 2024 ,and JetBlue flew the third most, Cirium flight schedule data shows. Along with interlining and reciprocal loyalty and booking, the Blue Sky partnership will impact United's holiday package offering. United, which currently sends customers to a hodgepodge of different websites to book car rentals, cruises, hotels and vacation packages, will begin using the more sophisticated Paisley platform that JetBlue has built for its package offerings. Paisley technology will enable United to keep its package offerings within the website and app, and to better integrate those offerings with the Mileage Plus program while enhancing customer service, the airline said. The partnership will touch upon both airlines' corporate travel programs. The carriers will continue to manage their corporate programs independently, but they'll have the ability to extend the terms of their corporate programs to flights operated by the other airline. "This includes the discounts each airline has independently negotiated," the airlines said.
The Independent
3 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
Jet Blue and United Airlines have announced a partnership. Here are the benefits for fliers
United Airlines and JetBlue Airways have announced a new partnership and it includes some big benefit for those heading to the skies. The deal was announced Thursday and still needs federal approval. It will allow passengers to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles across both airlines and book flights on each other's websites. United's MileagePlus and JetBlue's TrueBlue members will gain access to each other's loyalty perks, including priority boarding, free checked bags, preferred seating, extra legroom and same-day changes when flying on either carrier. The agreement also involves United's return to New York's JFK Airport, where it ceased operations in 2022. Starting as early as 2027, JetBlue will give up to seven daily round-trip slots at JFK to United. In exchange, JetBlue will gain additional space at Newark Liberty International Airport. Despite the close collaboration, both airlines will maintain independent operations, managing their own flight schedules and pricing. United will shift its website and mobile app travel booking features, including hotels, rental cars, cruises and insurance, to JetBlue's Paisly platform. If approved, elements of the "Blue Sky" alliance could begin as early as fall 2025. "United's global reach perfectly complements JetBlue's East Coast leisure network, and significantly expands the options and benefits for TrueBlue members, no matter where in the world they are traveling," Joanna Geraghty, CEO of JetBlue, said in a news release. "We're always looking for ways to give our MileagePlus members even more value and benefits and this collaboration gives them new, unique ways to use their hard-earned miles and find options that fit their schedule," United CEO Scott Kirby added. The new alliance follows JetBlue's previous partnership with American Airlines, known as the Northeast Alliance, which ended in 2023 after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the two companies. The DOJ argued that JetBlue and American's partnership reduced competition and harmed consumers by effectively merging operations in key markets like New York and Boston. A federal judge ruled in favor of the DOJ, leading to its termination.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
United Airlines will return to JFK with several daily flights in a deal with JetBlue
A collaboration with JetBlue will mark the return of United Airlines to JFK International Airport in two years. JetBlue will give United access to slots at JFK for up to seven daily round-trip flights beginning in 2027. JetBlue runs approximately 180 daily flights out of JFK. United last flew out of the New York airport in 2022.
