Airline executives predict a record summer and even more demand for first class

Key Facts

• United Airlines “as an airline and as an industry” will carry record numbers of travelers this summer, the carrier’s Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Nocella said on an earnings call Wednesday.
• Air travel demand has been resilient despite persistent inflation that has weighed on household budgets, as well as a spate of high-profile safety issues that have sparked congressional hearings and have become the butt of jokes from late-night television to TikTok.
• Nocella said on the earnings call Wednesday that the airline could further segment the front of the plane, much like United and other airlines have done with coach.
• “You have many teams of people working on how to further innovate and provide more and more choice and to monetize that choice on our behalf, obviously, in the future,” he said.

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