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• Edward Russell
United’s Scott Kirby rules out buying American or JetBlue after merger talk fizzles; JetBlue distress could alter the “math”
United CEO Scott Kirby said the carrier does not expect to pursue airline consolidation “for the foreseeable future,” after American rebuffed an approach. Kirby dismissed a potential JetBlue combination as “idiotic” and “mathematically not doable,” though he noted a JetBlue bankruptcy scenario could change the equation.
