Originally Posted by
StoneQOLdCrazy
I don’t get why people look back on RA’s and SD’s tenures with admiration. They were not pilot advocates and made a lot of poor decisions. RA’ backround was as Lorenzo’s union-busting attorney ffs. Each had a big boo-boo on their way out. RA with TA1.
and SD being complicit in/condoning retaliating against a whistleblower (which also eventually cost him his job leading the FAA). Oh, and he hired Jim Graham, a total POS, who in turn accelerated the cascade of worsening management in flight ops. Every current bad actor in flight ops is a part of the Graham hiring tree. He would have loved these letters. Enough said.
p.s. Microsoft Surface
I think Flight Ops was significantly more stable under SD and JG. Since they left it’s been a carousel of Chiefs, VPs of FL Ops, and what ever else they call those positions today. It lends to power struggles in the 4th floor, tons of politics, and alliances needing to be formed. Covid def did not help any of this. But there wasn’t the constant turn over when they were at the helm.
Also - the whistleblower is nuts. There is a 100+ page court filing detailing the entire story from way before she was grounded. Read that, plus the grandiosity and website and books, and her recent social media and there is no question why they believed she was nuts.
The problem is that they handled it terribly.