Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
Is Scott McCartney finally done with his 5 week series of former CEOs that nearly destroyed the industry, crushed labor, and now love to call shots from the cheap seats? About time.
I have enjoyed his show and miss Ben. Holy cow, though, the last few weeks have been painful. One of my favorite interviews with Frank Lorenzo was fairly recently on that show. He was a total ass and Scott went toe to toe with him instead of just accepting what he said as the truth.
I am more of an Air Show kind of guy, but AC gets better guests.
Actually the last few episodes of AC have been great. I don't agree on how they deal with labor but they are mangement. The Richard Anderson episode was a great insight about how Delta became the #1 airline in the business. It started with him once they merged with NW. Very interesting how he stated its about the operational side of the airline first, then marketing can play their games. Mx and operational reliability are the core of any airline. EB as CEO of Delta would not have it as good without the frame work of RA set in place at Delta. For those us on the op side of things, it's a great listen. Most CEO's have a finance/lawyer background but the better ones(RA and Gordon Bethune) that have heavy op side background seem to figure it out.
Since SWA fired the last head of commercial side of the business, AW has been doing duel jobs it seems as COO and CCO. Most of these displacements are coming to his people. Granted, they need to be done as far as the network(not displacements) is concerned but make no bones about it, AW is behind a lot of the network shake up. In the end BJ is ultimately responsible but AW is the nuts a bolts of it. He is a lot better speaker then he was a couple of years ago. He is definitely a wonky guy. As the podcast pointed out, BJ's contract is up in FEB and EM's silence agreement also ends on FEB. We may wake one morning and a whole regime change may take place at SWA. 2026 should be interesting.