Originally Posted by
newarkblows
I owe the fact that i have a job to the man. The music stopped and i am stuck at a decent regional vs being unemployed or at a crappy regional. In my indoc he came in and everyone asked "what will you do if we lose the 69 airplanes? will we park those airplanes?" and his response was "we dont park **** around here."
He started as a mechanic and from his business decisions he is no wimp. You can knock him all you want for what happened to XJT but i think a lot of it was inevitable. He could have sat behind his desk and walked away from a bankrupt company with his bonus. he took a lot of flak from inside and outside his company all while retaining the respect of his employees.
I was one of the unfortunate furloughees and I can say I have no regrets over coming to XJT. It's a class act and Ream impressed me from day one with how he ran the show. Considering that the deck was stacked against the company from the get-go it was the boldness of the company that kept it from just getting pushed under the rug by Continental. Through risky maneuvers like keeping the 69 planes and doing branded and short term contracts they got the United flying. Instead of the newest and most capable XRs and LR2s all Continental got back was the creaky old E-135s that we didn't want anyway (and Republic can enjoy losing money with them on Midwest now).
Anyway I've worked at a lot of places and I haven't respected any company as much as XJT. I'd love to come back some day.