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Reid also introduced his team of top U.S. aviation executives that together will build and manage Virgin America. The American management team includes:



* Don Applegarth, Chief Information Officer: Applegarth has over 18 years
of airline and technology experience. Previously, he was a vice
president at Navitaire, a division of Accenture, where he focused on
business development for the Navitaire division's airline reservation
systems, and vice president and CIO at Western Pacific Airlines.

* Bob Dana, Chief Financial Officer: Dana has more than 16 years
experience as an investment banker with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray and
Credit Suisse First Boston where he focused on airlines, air freight and
other transportation accounts.

* Stacy Geagan, Director of Communications: Most recently, Geagan was the
director of public relations and corporate communications for Song,
Delta Air Lines' low-fare start up. She draws on nearly a decade of
public relations and consumer marketing experience in the airline
industry.

* Joe Houghton, Chief Pilot: With more than 20 years of management and
operations experience, Houghton was the assistant chief pilot for US
Airways where he managed 725 pilots, including mainline and MetroJet
operations, and logged more than 11,000 hours of flight time.


* Todd Pawlowski, Vice President of Airports and Customer Service: With
more than 18 years of experience, Pawlowski most recently spent eight
years as the North American vice president of customer service at Virgin
Atlantic.

* Fred Reid, Head of Virgin America: Reid has more than 25 years of
experience in airline management, most recently serving as president and
chief operating officer of Delta.

* Terry Rendleman, Senior Vice President of Technical Operations:
Rendleman brings over 22 years of executive management experience with
major airlines as senior vice president of maintenance operations for
United Airlines and senior vice president of technical operations for
Northwest Airlines.

* Bob Weatherly, Senior Vice President of Flight Operations: Logging more
than 17,000 hours on large transport aircraft, Weatherly has spent 35
years in airline operations, including positions as vice president of
flight operations at Atlas and Canadian Airlines.
 
Virgin America announces
name, executive team, aircraft order

June 15, 2004--Fred Reid, head of the new Virgin-branded U.S. domestic airline, today announced the carrier's official name: Virgin America.

The airline has entered into agreements to acquire and lease up to 105 Airbus A320-family aircraft. The aircraft deal calls for initial delivery in early 2005 with a firm order for 18 new aircraft--11 A319s and seven A320s--with 15 additional new A320s being leased from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). The agreement with Airbus also contains options for up to 72 additional aircraft.

Reid also introduced his team of top U.S. aviation executives that together will build and manage Virgin America. In Addition to Reid, top management of the company include: Don Applegarth, chief information officer; Bob Dana, chief financial officer; Stacy Geagan, director of communications.

The new operations team includes:

Bob Weatherly, senior vice president of flight operations, who has logged more than 17,000 hours on large transport aircraft. Weatherly has spent 35 years in airline operations, including positions as vice president of flight operations at Atlas and Canadian Airlines.

The new chief pilot is Joe Houghton, who has more than 20 years of management and operations experience. Houghton was the assistant chief pilot for US Airways, where he managed 725 pilots, including mainline and MetroJet operations, and logged more than 11,000 hours of flight time.

Virgin America will maintain its corporate headquarters in New York and principal operational base in San Francisco.

The U.S. airline will be American-controlled and majority-owned as well as managed by a team of leading American aviation executives.
 
Maybe some other USAir guys care to chime in, but I never heard of Joe Houghton before. Of course I always tried to stay out of the Chief Pilot's office.

Typhoonpilot
 
typhoonpilot said:
Maybe some other USAir guys care to chime in, but I never heard of Joe Houghton before. Of course I always tried to stay out of the Chief Pilot's office.

Typhoonpilot
It says he was Assistant Chief Pilot and managed 725 pilots....that's quite a small group. Does USAir have an Asst CP for each fleet? Maybe that's what he did. I first assumed one of the USAir regionals....until I saw the mainline and Metrojet thing. Who knows.
 
Each base has a chief pilot and assistant chief pilot so he may have been one of those, either since I left or at some point previously.

TP
 
Never heard of him but the BWI base would have 1 Chief Pilot and at least 1 Assistant Chief Pilot to look over all BWI ops both MetroJet and Mainline.
 
FLYLOW22 said:
Never heard of him but the BWI base would have 1 Chief Pilot and at least 1 Assistant Chief Pilot to look over all BWI ops both MetroJet and Mainline.
I was based in BWI as a Captain, spent time in several other bases and 6 years in the Training Department during my 15 years at USAirways, and I'VE NEVER heard of this guy. There's a "houghton" on the current seniority list, but VERY junior and about to get furloughed, and different first initials. If the guy is on the furlough list, he WASN'T a chief pilot, assistant or otherwise. Guess anyone can put "assistant" this-or-that on their resumes these days.

Makes me laugh . . .
 
dlredline said:
I was based in BWI as a Captain, spent time in several other bases and 6 years in the Training Department during my 15 years at USAirways, and I'VE NEVER heard of this guy. There's a "houghton" on the current seniority list, but VERY junior and about to get furloughed, and different first initials. If the guy is on the furlough list, he WASN'T a chief pilot, assistant or otherwise. Guess anyone can put "assistant" this-or-that on their resumes these days.

Makes me laugh . . .
I haven't heard anything flattering (from Atlas folks) about the VP-Flt Ops who came from Atlas Air (Weatherby) either.
Hmmm, based in SFO, Ried lives in SFO? Sounds like a get rich scheme for the elite few. The worker bees will be paid at an appropriate lvl for an SFO base, yaah sure.
 
All,

Joe Houghton was the assistant chief pilot at bwi for my entire usair career, 2.5 years. Good guy.

4lowed
 
With this select group of "Winners" I hope that Virgin never makes it into the air.... I have talked to several of Virgins pilots and they all say the same thing. Sh***y company and branson is a Major pr#ck to work for. For all of our careers may the crash and burn on takeoff......
 
Heard the same thing mentioned about Virgin Atlantic. Miserable pay and miserable place to work from the pilot perspective. There is no love lost between Branson and his pilots. Anyone out there thinking that this place will be the next Southwest or JetBlue might want to think again.

PHXFLYR:cool:
 

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