Agreed. TD was a golden child. I think DN specifically hired him to be his replacement. That being said.... you don't just up and leave a job when you are CEO-elect. His reasoning is to spend more time with family.... well im pretty sure that moving to Utah (he went to BYU) with his family and working down the street as the president of the company is the most family time he's ever had as it is. I don't buy that reasoning. Next to DN, he knows the most about the inner working of this company. Coupled with the Jetblue announcements this week of overlapping some of our routes and the desparate need for consolidation in the industry (Jetblue being the most desparate next to Spirit), I think his reasoning is obvious.... He doesn't want to move to NY and be an executive at Jetblue.

Also, consider this. He probably has more skin in the game at Breeze than anybody beside DN... why would you leave that? Why not just ride it out to the end? He knows how this announcement will affect the employee moral, and whatever was coming next did not deter him from making the decision to leave early.

Then again, management didn't blame the IT meltdown on ALPA so... I could be wrong