Originally Posted by
slowplay
Nope. He was gone by then (August 2007). He shot off his mouth at the Paris Airshow, irked his boss and some BOD members while at the same time limiting Delta's negotiating leverage with Boeing. RA is the guy that likes refurbing old aircraft, and the MD-90 expansion came with him and SG.
This guy told us in indoc that they were trying to get the board to approve more 90's from the used market and if it were up to him we would buy all of them we could. Then he left a few months later. The used MD-90 thing was going on well before he left and RA came on board it just got postponed while everyone was busy with the merger.