Airline CEO: Industry 'needs the support' of Fed Gov.

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“It’s time to fly,” says Barry Biffle, CEO of Frontier Airlines, whose company alerted 1,500 of its staff that they may be furloughed. “To be quite honest, if everyone would fly, we wouldn’t be staring at this many layoffs.”

The CEO of Frontier Airlines, Barry Biffle, joins Ayman Mohyeldin after President Trump signaled he was willing to provide COVID relief funds to the airline industry.

Biffle, whose company has alerted 1,500 of its staff they may be furloughed, welcomes the financial support, and stresses to potential customers that it's now "time to fly" in order to save the industry.

 

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Hey please ask FlyFrontier Barry Biffle why he doesn’t care about actual passengers’ safety and seats strangers right next to each other without distancing. Guess “it’s time to fly” means money in his pocket and sickness for ticket holders, right?

Ok. He should line up his immediate family and save them seats on his packed air plaines with strangers and fly several round trip flights over a few days. Wait 10 to 14 days. If no one gets sick maybe y'all can chance it. I'll just take my car. ROAD TRIP!

Tell the country to control themselves to control the virus.

Yeah great, who can afford to fly now. Incredibly tone deaf. Like ads for disney world. Sure go to a hotspot get sick then not allowed to go home due to travel bans. Let me run to book thot flight....not.

If his policies weren't so whack maybe people will...when it gets safe. Airlines have been ripping off customers for decades so I have a hard time mustering much sympathy except for their employees

You already received billions in help...

True... but you’d probably be staring at coffins instead

Nope. And there are a whole lot of folks I would love to visit

When the virus is over with people well fly again

OK, where should all these people be flying to, with what money, and wtf are they going to be able to do when they get there?

How do people like this turd become CEO. Get rid of the CEO and keep the real workers.

Where are we supposed to fly to? This is like Mitt Romney telling poor people to stop being poor.

I heard the interview and couldn’t believe that came out of his mouth...

To be quite honest, if we had an administration andpopulation that took this seriously, more people might be flying.

To be quite honest, if everyone just went back to “normal”, obscene amounts of people might die, but it would be worth it - right?

. Blame democrats with freaking out citizens Tge oddest reallity in the country is that countries are uniting with president Trump. But Democrats are dividing the USA . Figure that one out

Same logic as if we had less tests we’d have less cases !

JFC... this is just shameful at this point. You're posting shit from anyone that will give you money... Good god... this is just... I fell fuckin embarrassed for you, ... AliVelshi, I know you know what I'm saying.

Where did all that PPP money go?

To be honest, if everyone used masks and other safety measures, perhaps we Could fly in awhile.

Maybe he should give up his salary for a while

If you had Safe transportation they would! Sorry about your Billion Dollar Bonus loss!

The mask mandate will kill the industry.

Is HE willing to take a pay cut?

M’kay, tell you what... Remove 2 seats from every row and give us some MF breathing room. Then we’ll talk “bailout”.

We probably would have been able to fly by now if the Republicans hadn’t botched the response to covid.

The Airline industry today is the privet jet for wall St., Let them bail them out. (Business Class)

Barry Biffle net worth is 11 million dollars and want a handout, and this fool wants people to fly in a Pandemic

As soon as American citizens are assisted first & foremost THEN we can talk to you about assistance! If people don't have $ or a reason to fly the $ given to the airlines is wasted !

Um

God forbid we should actually care about people's lives rather than his profit How about he gets laid off first? He hasn't done his job to protect his employees or shareholders.

Capitalists are against government involvement and socialism until they have their hands out for government help.

Kind of out of touch with reality. Seriously I don’t want him to access my money.

FlyFrontier -Barry didn't answer the question. And the reason(s) America isn't flying are simple: we're broke, and scared. You're greedy - middle seats are being filled, mask wearing isn't enforced. You spent all your cash. Buck up. How about management paycuts and no bonuses?

Wtf?

How bout we help the nation’s people first this time.

Guy's a fekkin boardroom genius, ain't he?

Airlines can eat the loss. Everyone is losing right now. If they're not shipping, they need to tighten their damned belts. And stop doing flights with three passengers.

Wait, Frontier is still in business? I thought they went belly-up decades ago. 🙊

To be quite honest, if this is the smartest person that this industry could find to be CEO, then they have bigger issues.

Any if airlines want to pack people on planes we may never fly. Fyi: there is a highly infectious virus spreading rapidly and you can't social distance on crowded flights.

I really want to climb into a sealed tube with people that I have no idea if they are sick or not. The screaming child that is like typhoid Mary is spewing virus into the recirculated air. And Mom will not wear a mask unless she is forced Cool

Oh please. How much in bailouts?

If it was safe to fly I would

Frontier is one of the companies that needs to go away. Service is horrible.

Time to Fly?where to do what? Maybe if this CEO would band together with Other CEO’s and demand a plan from the Federal Government on Covid we wouldn’t be in this position. This guy is isn’t smart enough to figure out yet no one is flying until this is over.? Demand action now!

They should just stop auditing, everyone knows if you don't audit you don't have financial problems. Likewise less testing, less infections...? TrumpIsACompleteFailure

So it’s our fault now Smh.

And there will be more furlough in October.

Socialism for the rich. Yeah we get it. Capitalism for the poor. This is the trump way.

Maybe they shouldn’t have bought back their own stocks

My doctor begged me not to fly. She said the risk was so high and I'd do nothing but either get sick or get others sick. And I fully trust her advice. I'm not flying anywhere until the virus is under control or there's a vaccine.

To fly or die, that is the question.

He later added, “To be honest, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas!”

Translation: my salary is dependent on stock prices and bonuses; I couldn’t give a shit about employees. So please fly, I need that third house. 🙄

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