Republic CEO To Appear On 'Undercover Boss'
 

Bryan Bedford, the chief executive officer of Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings will be one of the CEOs to appear on this season's 'Undercover Boss' television show. An airdate for the episode featuring Bryan Bedford has not been announced.

UNDERCOVER BOSS was the Emmy-nominated #1 new series of the 2009-2010 season, averaging 17.7 million viewers. UNDERCOVER BOSS premiered following the Super Bowl this year and had 38.7 million viewers, the largest audience for a new series following the Super Bowl.

Each week, UNDERCOVER BOSS follows a different executive as they leave the comfort of their corner office for an undercover mission to examine the inner workings of their companies. While working alongside their employees, they see the effects that their decisions have on others, where the problems lie within their organizations and get an up-close look at both the good and the bad while discovering the unsung heroes who make their companies run.

he is gonna cry when he hears how much **** people talk about him.

Of course none of the bad crap will be put on air...I'd love to see him talk to the pilot group to get their opinions. I'm sure it'll be a ramper, maybe some gate agents.

Looks like RAH may be needing some cash.

cant wait to see it... :D

they wont air anything with pilots in it.

And the rampers don't care enough to know who Bedford is anyway...

From what I've heard there is no mention of republic's "fee for departure stuff," it's all Frontier airlines. I personally see this as a very smart move. That show last year had some of the top ratings and will probably continue to be successful. It's free press, good or bad and it's will be nice to see another airline on tv other than southwest.

Exactly. This is nothing but a move to put the branded side out there.

CEO of the new 99 Seat Airline! Nice job BB. You win again. Pilots take it up the back end again.

It is cheaper for BB to go on this silly show then it is for him to advertise like other airlines have been in Denver. It is crazy to see how much advertising has been going on, and Frontier hasn't ramped their adverts up at all.

BB ran a Town Hall Meeting in MKE yesterday. When asked he said the show would air towards the end of October. Filming locations were DEN (No Surprise), PHX, OKC, SAN. His positions were Lav maintenance, Ramp, Ticketing. Had roughly 150 people at the reveal, not sure when or where (DEN?) Should be interesting

BB is just going on the show to see how to run the company more like Mesa and take figure out a way to cut more employees to line his pockets.

According to an internal memo, employees were going to be returned to full pay in September 2008. Of course, such cuts weren't evenly applied across the company: While trimming tens of millions out of labor costs, Bedford received a yearly bonus that jumped from $619,535 in 2007 to $620,000 in 2008. This was in addition to stock options, salary, and other benefits. Meanwhile, pay for crew schedulers airline is $11 per hour, while customer service reps pull in $26,000 per year.

According to Forbes, Bedford didn't receive a bonus in 2009, which meant that his total compensation package totaled $1,354,067. In other words, even with a 31% pay cut, he still made more than 52 times as much as the people who sell tickets for his airline, and his hourly wage was almost ten times that of the people who fly the planes.

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"people that fly the planes" make 130k?

chuckle.

Almost <keyword>.

Your math and or logic are a little off... There's nothing "almost" about it! Your pilot group is nowhere near average pay of $135,500.00. Bedford made much more than 10 times(average pilot pay), my guess would be more like 25 to 30 times your pilot group average!