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Why United Airlines Is Now The Airline Everyone Should Have Feared All Along!

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In 2002, United Airlines filed for the largest airline bankruptcy in American history. By 2025, it posted $59.1 billion in revenue, the highest in the company's 99-year history.

Then, on February 28, 2026, everything was tested again.

This is the story of how one CEO, arriving on the worst possible day, May 2020, the middle of a pandemic that had grounded 60% of the world's aircraft, made a…