Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
I would expect a CEO to be pro greed and anti labor, but I would rather know what I am up against rather than rah rah culture BS. It certainly won't stop me or anyone associated with labor complaining about it.
I don't think Elliott has anyone's best interests at heart other than their own, but I know that going in. Jordan stood up at investor day and said that he is selling airplanes and order book slots to raise cash to pay investors. He is doing that to fend off the activist investors and keep his job. Ummmm....thats corporate raider stuff, man! Don't send me emails telling me you Luv me and then sell out your own company to keep your job.
One common theme with Elliott that I agree with is that the people that got us into this situation probably aren't the best people to get us out.
The only thing I have heard any pilot say in Jordan's defense is "he is probably better than the alternative". I know 2 billion reasons that he isnt the answer. He is an accidental CEO who is way out of his depth. Time to get someone who can steer this ship into the next port.
You must have read a different script on what Jordan said than I did. Every airline out there has slowed it's growth that just a fact. Every airline has claimed there is too much capacity so to recover the value of some of SWA 800's which cost more to fly now because load factors are lower, the company plans on selling them to monetize the value in those airframes. Not sure that's same thing you're claiming. But each to their own.