New CFO, Other Officer Moves

[Connected1]

New CFO, Other Officer Moves

* Horton replaces Beer
* Capacity Planning and RM now report to CFO
* Dolara to retire, with his responsibilities to be split between Craig Kreeger and David Cush
* Kreeger and Cush both promoted to SVP
* Bella Goren acquires responsibility for AAdvantage and is promoted to SVP
* Doug Herring to replace Bill Quinn as head of AMR Beacon
* Brian McMenamy to replace Doug Herring

 

[operaations]

Interesting to have Horton Back

 

[eolesen]

Horton's essentially out of a job now that AT&T was absorbed into SBC. Clearly, he didn't return at his previous salary level...

IIRC, Capacity Planning and RM have reported to Horton since Mike Gunn retired.

Kreeger and Cush are essentially taking on the roles Dolara had for MCLA, without changing jobs. Probably a good move for both areas. Today, MCLA might as well be a different airline. I wonder if the regional staff in Coral Gables will survive Dolara's retirement, or if those functions to be consolidated at HDQ or LON.

 

[Connected1]

IIRC, Capacity Planning and RM have reported to Horton since Mike Gunn retired.

There is no way Walter and Robert Olson reported to Horton.

 

[AirwAr]

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I wonder if the regional staff in Coral Gables will survive Dolara's retirement, or if those functions to be consolidated at HDQ or LON.
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My guess is that Kreeger will eventually move to MIA. It seems to me this would be a more central location from which to govern all international ground handling.

 

[eolesen]

There is no way Walter and Robert Olson reported to Horton.

My bad. I meant to type Joyner and typed Horton...

Aue and Nason (Olson reports to Nason) report to Joyner, who has been a direct report to Arpey since Gunn retired.

My guess is that Kreeger will eventually move to MIA. It seems to me this would be a more central location from which to govern all international ground handling.

Dunno. If you look at future growth, London still makes sense to me -- we've pretty much saturated South America, but are just dipping our toe into Asia. Plus, if you're going to have an international SVP be based inside the US, you might as put them back into HDQ so that they're connected with all the other departments. There are very few key destinations you can't get to from DFW.