Originally Posted by
Tailhookah
Pilots are the best CEO’s.... riiiight. One thing I’ve learned is to not take any business advice from pilots. And I’ll not ever expect to get any flying skill advice from Ed.
Ed did inherit a well oiled machine from Richard. We all agree about that. But Ed has shown great skill in running the Big D and I only shudder to think where we’d be with Parker or Munoz. Delta is kicking ass because Delta is run by a great team... not because they’re running on cruise control.
True, but that does not excuse the unbelievable amount of capital that has been burned on questionable buybacks. We operate in an extremely capital intensive business, a billion goes along way to solve lots of problems. Not sure we’ve solved many by spending +$5billion on buying stock, unless it comes to overcompensating a very small group of employees.