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[BigMac]

In this pic..who is the undercover management boss ?

[Frank Szabo]

BigMac, on 10 September 2010 - 05:22 PM, said:

In this pic..who is the undercover management boss ?

We never heard about any outcome re: Burchette sticking his hands in Romano's pockets.

[Bob Owens]

787nightmare, on 08 September 2010 - 10:00 PM, said:

While in TULE, I heard stories about Crandall that were very interesting.
Large crowded meetings with rank and file. Emp stories told to Bob about equipment needing to be replaced, added or repaired.
Crandall would look over the TULE management and say,"who's in charge of there area"?...."I want them to have a(fill in the blank here)by tomorrow. They need the tools to do there jobs!".
I also heard about his willingness to pay A/Ps a good wage, but had a big problem with paying the entry level positions the money the TWU wanted to get them. Which is only good business sense IMO.
He also was the author of the "B scale". Pilots and mechanics alike. Which I dislike and feel like it's pure BS. But it's how he handled the TWU and ALPA.

Also, tales of Crandall ripping the blinds off the windows at HDQTRs, when it was discovered that AA failed to seize an opportunity or got the short end of the stick. He had a temper! And didn't have much patience with incompetence.

Like him or hate him...there was never any question about Crandalls grit or him playing to win! He took no #### from anyone.
He had an airline to run. And he knew how to do it. You have to respect that...

Crandall never would have survived Rule 32.

[Interested]

Bob Owens, on 12 September 2010 - 06:15 AM, said:

Crandall never would have survived Rule 32.

Maybe and just maybe, we wouldn't have a rule 32 if Crandall was still here.

[frontline]

eolesen, on 07 September 2010 - 09:26 AM, said:

Yes. He also outsourced a guard dog with a tape recorder once to save money.

Ain't revisionist history grand?

You guys crack me up. You couldn't wait for Crandall to sail off and be lost at sea. Now you're pining away for his triumphant return.

As someone who worked through the Crandall days at AA, it cracks me up too.

Makes me wonder if Gerard won't be nostalgic big hero in 20 years to guys trying to work out a contract with who ever is CEO!

[Interested]

I watched the show from last Sunday night. They featured the CEO from Frontier airlines. He was walked through the A/C cleaners, fleet service, F/A positions. By the time he was done, n]he realized that all the employees were still not happy with their 10% paycut to help the company. At the end of the show, he promised on national tv, that their pay WILL be RESTORED over the next three years. AT LEAST HE NOW KNOWS WHAT THE EMPLOYEES GO THROUGH AND HOW DISGRUNTLED THEY ARE. Yea, he wasn't to happy throwing bags in the 104 degree heat in OKC.

[eolesen]

I know one of the VP's at Frontier, and it was a surprise to a lot of people in upper management when he revoked the pay cuts.

In all fairness, the cuts were made when they entered bankruptcy, and were well before RJET bought the controlling stake, and Bedford took over as CEO.