Agreed, his vision together with Andrew Nocella and Ankit Gupta has brought us to where we are today, I would be seriously worried if Kirby left. Here's to many more years of Kirby. Who cares if he wore a dress at AA, he is doing wonders for us today.
I hear we have been paying cash for airplane deliveries, last time I heard of an airline doing such a thing was Nortwest Airlines, until 1986.