Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
We had an astronaut running Eastern Airlines (before you were born) and we saw how that worked out.
I say give the man a chance and let's see how it goes.
…I mean he (Frank Borman) was a former military officer with 0 commercial aviation experience put in charge of running an airline after success at an unrelated endeavor. Sounds more like our new guy than you probably meant it to.
I really hope our new COO does well, but it does seem to be a trend over the past several years to hire people with less and less airline operational experience in positions that really should have some.