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Old Nov 29, 2009 | 9:18 pm
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Originally Posted by worldwidedreamer
Kellner took over the best network airline and he leaves it to Smisek. My fear with Smisek is the Continental starts resembling UA instead of vice versa. I've always enjoyed flying with the airline the works hard and flies right.
This is my sentiment exactly. I don't know enough about Jeff's vision or style to be overly concerned or complacent at this point, though.

I think Larry did a good job of steering CO through some of the most turbulent times for the industry since the early 90s. Remember though - Larry was first and foremost a numbers man. Although he agreed in the principle of spending a $1 to earn $1.10, I think the product and feature-set might have evolved differently if he had a marketing background.

I would like more insight into Jeff's background and philosophy. That will help us better understand the changes that could be coming - or the potential for things to remain generally the same.

Cigarman is right - and without his open dialog with Larry and Larry's willingness to listen, we'd have half (or less) as many F seats, not to mention some likely negative changes to OP regarding upgrades in general.
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