Originally Posted by
flyallnite
To be fair, the context of those remarks by JM were in response to Leo's efforts to get a bailout from the Feds, which we got, in no small part due to his testimony before congress. He was a crappy airline CEO, was really only brought on board to merge DAL and UAL, but he did make the other CEOs look like hacks that day. Too bad he didn't use that big brain to actually run the operation.
Frank takes the prize.
Fly,
My quote was taken from the announcement that Mullin was leaving Delta. He had been fired.
Giving Mullin credit is like me crashing on every single maneuver and managing to get more sim time before Delta fired me. The Feds gave us another six months of life, as did B of A. Leo and Fred burned all of that, and in the process let Michelle fund such Delta marketing initiatives as a book tour of the writer of "Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star" and "youth Pride."
Was he evil and vindictive in the form of a Lorenzo? No, he was just greedy and incompetent.
Conservatively, Delta Connection cost us 25 Billion and a few thousand jobs. In all fairness, Malone should have let a furloughed Marine write Leo's love letter, without editing. IM(somewhat educated)O, Mullin set this Company on a course for bankruptcy reorganization as far back as 2001-2001. If you look back at his speeches, they were full of statements like "new cost paradigm" and he was saying "it does not matter what we spend, our competitors will match us." Worked great for Contract 2000, but a good case can be made that he never intended to honor that agreement in good faith.
Among our MEC Chairmen, Malone was probably one of the better ones. My comment was just contrasting the ridiculousness of the argument.