New Pinnacle Corp CEO
 

Sean Menke, former F9 CEO

Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Names Sean Menke President And CEO

Maybe the F9 guys can chime in on what we can expect...

Does this mean we are getting a DEN base?

I don't know anything About this cat but god let it be a good thing !?!?

Barney runs the airline from a pilot's day-to-day standpoint anyways so nothing will change till that purple dinosaur becomes extinct...

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My question is, was he the CEO before or after their bankruptcy? Not that anyone cares about my opinion at corporate but I think that'd be an asterisk.

Funny how a CEO can run 1 or more airlines/companies into bankrupcy and still get another CEO job...

Menke was the one who nearly pulled F9 out of bankruptcy. His employees loved him. They even took pay cuts for him. At RAH, he didn't get along with the other slave driver VPs, so he left not too long after moving to Indianapolis. As an outsider, I would view this as a very good thing for Pinnacle.

Welcome aboard Mr. Menke!

Trust me on this one Sean Menke is a great individual and will make a great CEO for you at Pinnacle. Unfortunately, he was handed the reigns a day late and a dollar short at F9 during bankruptcy. If he would have been in there 12 months earlier we wouldn't have to be dealing with this RAH nightmare.

Congrats. to Sean and all of you at Pinnacle!

Wow, he's only 42 and they are calling him a "veteran" CEO?

Age is only a number... first impressions will be crucial with our bruised and beaten pilot group. I like what I've read and heard about this guy. Finally something to get excited about.

The Frontier people would take Sean back in a heartbeat. When he left Republic, it was a very deflating thing for the Frontier group.

Menke did not mesh with Brian Bedford and a few other of his VP's - plus Menke had gone from de-facto running Frontier to being a VP underneath a guy who knew nothing about running a major airline.

Menke and his team at Frontier saved the airline when no one thought it could be saved. As someone who's met Sean, I'm very happy to see him back in the business - good man.

Didn't Dick Anderson run two in before getting the helm at Delta?

Anderson was one of the most respected CEO's at Northwest ever... he left in 2003 I believe. Then went to United Healthcare and then Delta.

So... no.

Can we share him? Or is Inc. going to claim him for themselves.

Anderson left Continental in 1990. Within a year Continental was in BK.

Anderson left Northwest in 2004. Within a year Northwest was in BK.

Maybe it is the lack of Anderson that causes bankruptcy, or maybe the guy just knows when to jump ship.

He knows when to jump ship. There was apparently a dispute on whether or not to take NW into BK and he left over it.

Fair enough. Besides, we both know executive bungling never hurt anyone. It's actually greedy pilots that force airlines into Ch11.

Business Person of the Year: Frontier's Sean Menke - The Denver Post

Here's an old article about him.

I think this is a great choice for our 3 airlines I can't wait for his first conference call