astroglider
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Airline 101
The airline business is a labor intensive one. It takes an army of laborers to keep an airline flying day after day, year after year. There is no getting around this fact. To be successful in the airline business an airline must be led by a management team who's goal is to make that airline a success. If airline employees can look to their management team and know that team is working to make their airline a successful one they will be motivated to
do whatever they can to make that happen.
So this begs the question...What are the folks at Virgin America thinking by appointing Don "the retention-bonus thief" Carty as their Chairman of the Board?
What a error in judgment they've made by smearing the Virgin brand in the scandal-ridden reputation of Donald J. Carty.
Does Virgin think prospective Virgin employees would forget what Don Carty did to the employees of AMR a few years back?
Former AMR CEO Don Carty revealed the details of executive-retention bonuses and pension protections just days after most employee groups had narrowly voted to accept $1.62 billion worth of annual concessions. This after Carty made numerous pleas to his employee groups calling for "shared sacrifice".
Oh wait didn't current Virgin America CEO Fred Reid take part in a similar retention bonus plan at Delta? Retention bonus? Fred left Delta months after receiving the bonus! SOME RETENTION! That's the reason Virgin America CEO Fred Reid had NO problem hiring Don Carty even though Carty was FIRED by AMR for incompetence and arrogance. Fred Reid it seems
shares some of the same career experiences and management-styles with Don Carty.
Here's the big problem with Virgin America...it's run by folks who have a track record of lying to then screwing over the very employee groups they've been charged with leading.
Now does that sound like a recipe for a successful airline?
The airline business is a labor intensive one. It takes an army of laborers to keep an airline flying day after day, year after year. There is no getting around this fact. To be successful in the airline business an airline must be led by a management team who's goal is to make that airline a success. If airline employees can look to their management team and know that team is working to make their airline a successful one they will be motivated to
do whatever they can to make that happen.
So this begs the question...What are the folks at Virgin America thinking by appointing Don "the retention-bonus thief" Carty as their Chairman of the Board?
What a error in judgment they've made by smearing the Virgin brand in the scandal-ridden reputation of Donald J. Carty.
Does Virgin think prospective Virgin employees would forget what Don Carty did to the employees of AMR a few years back?
Former AMR CEO Don Carty revealed the details of executive-retention bonuses and pension protections just days after most employee groups had narrowly voted to accept $1.62 billion worth of annual concessions. This after Carty made numerous pleas to his employee groups calling for "shared sacrifice".
Oh wait didn't current Virgin America CEO Fred Reid take part in a similar retention bonus plan at Delta? Retention bonus? Fred left Delta months after receiving the bonus! SOME RETENTION! That's the reason Virgin America CEO Fred Reid had NO problem hiring Don Carty even though Carty was FIRED by AMR for incompetence and arrogance. Fred Reid it seems
shares some of the same career experiences and management-styles with Don Carty.
Here's the big problem with Virgin America...it's run by folks who have a track record of lying to then screwing over the very employee groups they've been charged with leading.
Now does that sound like a recipe for a successful airline?
