This is ridiculous. No doubt it is what Kirby is thinking, but it is crazy talk. United can make people feel comfortable to start to fly again, and it can start to add more planes, allowing them to fly at 70% capacity and then get the number of passangers up, begain to restart the aviation system. Or they can scare the crud out of passengers so they will not fly, and then fly planes like was the case a month ago with 2-3-4 people on the plane.

Congress gave the industry $50B - to allow them to keep the system alive and not think on a flight by flight basis. United is back to being penny wise but pound foolish.

I will make one final comment, which is that the Boeing CEO - who gotta say is honest, rare these days - just flat out said (a) the US aviation sector is going to significantly lag other countries, saying that US traffic levels will not be back to 25% in the fall, and (b) that at least one US carrier would be liquidated by this fall when the Covid-19 $$$ runs out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willhor.../#3059ef8e344a b

This is a major, major mistake by United, and IMHO substantially increases the chance that UA ends up liquidated. Having a brand that is associated with spreading disease and broken promises is NOT the way to stay an operating concern. Just a basic question: Given a choice between flying on Delta (or AS or B6) and a promise of an empty middle or United with a promise that they will fill the plane, but let you know when you get there that you can take another plane (which might be full too) if you don't want to sit with your face 8" from another, who are you going to fly?

I gotta go to NYC in early July, and you can bet the last airline who I am every going to fly is United, ditto on the 4 trips I need to schedule to Seattle.