Originally Posted by
panjabi
That is why AMR and other airlines have such trouble attracting top name CEOs. Doug Parker and Tom Horton may be the best available CEOs to AMR today. Does not mean they are the best possible CEOs.
No slam on anyone.
I think this goes to the point that the airline industry does have trouble attracting the best and the brightest - not only the unions, but tremendous government regulations that make providing better service and innovative products sometimes close to impossible or cost-exhorbinant even if possible.