Originally Posted by queue

No one who does something for the first time knows how to do it. You would do much better than current management because you know the industry at a working level. The management 101 stuff is trivial and easy. You may have to sell your morals and ethics to make it in NYC but there are exceptions.



I would venture to guess that about 70% of all other industries out there are more difficult than running an airline. Think about it... there are no real unknowns. It's not fundamentally different than buying a fleet of cabs then copying the competition. There are plenty of management consultants that will walk you through airline management 101. There are hundreds of "air carriers" flying under Part 121 and Part 135 that are total amateur operations, yet they turn a profit.



Getting to the moon was hard. Airline stuff is not intellectually "hard" - it just takes brute force.

• Kennedy says he wants the USA to get to the Moon (~1962)
• When the astronauts landed on the moon (~1969)
• ~7 years
• Time elapsed so far on the BJ contract negotiation: ~3+ yrs
• Average age of Apollo engineers: 28 yrs old

And that was back in the day when people cared about being first at something important, not being the first female CEO or some sexist leftist agenda.



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