I agree with that, in the sense that again, I think that AdJ at least had the intuition that you need passengers to want to fly an airline, and as such he did improve the product.

Unlike brunos, however, and as mentioned, I totally disagree with your assessment that he stood up to the unions/staff. Beyond that, it seems that the three of us have different conceptions of what proportion of his ideas were good/bad and in fairness, it will probably be hard to figure out who is right or not they will likely be so poorly implemented that I'll probably think that even though they were poorly implemented, they were bad ideas anyway while you'll think that while the implementation was poor the actual idea was not, and brunos will likely be somewhere in between

I guess that the ultimate question is: if AdJ had stayed for another 2-3 years, would he have turned AF around, and my personal opinion is that he would not have and that he has not even planted the seeds of profitability even though he has indeed helped improve the premium product (something I have never denied and as a customer, I appreciate).