The people that Altimeter/PAR Capital want on the United board are crap. Maybe a couple of decent ones, but four of the six are total crap.

Here's the list:
Besides Bethune, the other people Altimeter and PAR want to add to the board include Altimeter Capital's Gerstner, former Orbitz Worldwide (OWW) CEO Barney Harford, former Delphi Automotive (DLPH) CEO Rodney O'Neal, SherpaFoundry CEO Tina Sharkey and the head of strategic initiatives at homebuilder Lennar (LEN), Brenda Yester Baty.


My opinion (worth nothing ):
Gordon Bethune - Anyone who states that FLIBS was fired for no reason in the middle of the night is completely incompetent and has no place on United's BOD. Gordo stated that in the CNBC interview.

Brad Gerstner - He's a hedgie. And a really crappy one at that. More than 1/3 of Altimeter Capital's holdings are United stock. Two stocks, United and Expedia, represent more than half of Altimeter's holdings. For that reason alone, I'd love to see United's stock get halved. 13F Manager Holdings - Altimeter Capital Management, LLC
I hope that a$$hat's hedge fund blows up.

Barney Harford - former CEO of Orbitz until he was able to sell Orbitz to Expedia in 2015. Took over in early 2009; stock's performance was nothing special compared to the rest of the stock market (it's a low hurdle to take over a public company in early 2009 at the bottom of the market and have the stock price rise a bit). He looks like one of those people who polish turds and then sell them.

Rodney O'Neal - Didn't look at his background; probably the most qualified of the six.

Tina Sharkey - reading her history reminded me of Al Gore 'inventing' the internet. Looked like a whole lot of overstating her past. Claimed to be a cofounder of iVillage (a failed internet company from the late 90s that was never profitable) but she was simply hired there, working for the cofounders.
Claims to have invented the term, 'social media'. LOL! Forbes Welcome I'd put the origin of that somewhere within AOL.
Checkered history of hopping between companies every couple of years, no company looks like it was successful.

Brenda Yester Baty - not much information out there on her. Used to do revenue management for Carnival Cruise Lines, moved over to Lennar Homes. From this article, it looks like she implemented six fare categories at Carnival only to backtrack a year later and return to three fare categories: Carnival Cruise Lines Simplifies Pricing - Carnival Cruise Lines - Cruise Critic



Lord help us if these idiots get on United's BOD. I'd rather just burn the place down so that Altimeter and PAR lose their investments.