C'mon, everybody knows BC is an airline genius!
610 of us were furloughed in '93-'94 when he decided to park 25 DC-10s, then turned around and leased some to Hawaiian so they could compete with AA on the west coast-HNL routes. Brilliant!
Chief Pilot Cecil Ewell brought the fuloughed pilots in to Centreport for an overnight conference and pep talk. He told the story of being in a meeting with BC and noticed he had a leather belt with "Bob" engraved on it. So he asked him if that was there so that when Bob pulled his head out of his ass, he'd know who he was!
Cecil said what the hell, if he fired me I'd just go back to the line and fly to Paris. They don't make em like that anymore.