Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
If you listen to Kirby on podcasts he wasn't allowed to implement hardly anything over there. Almost every time he tried to make a difference, he was shot down by Parker. American would be a much different airline right now if they had just let Kirby run it.
Said the same thing to my charm school class in 2019. He wasn't the "boss with the final say" of any of his ideas. Got the sense that he was happy to be working for someone (Oscar) who let him run and improve the operations and hubs. Specifically mentioned that it was ludicrous the previous CEO floated the idea of closing DEN when he saw it as a gem with great employees that needed to be given the chance to be the money maker he saw in its true potential.