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Old Sep 19, 2018, 8:00 pm
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calgaryhhr
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Originally Posted by james dean
President Steven Greenway is adamant that his team be a diverse group, mostly with backgrounds outside commercial aviation, “We don’t want airline people. We have gone out of our way to make sure that our staff is from digital, retailing, oil & gas.” It is a drastically different take on what an airline can be.

For me I kinda like my guys/gals at the pointy end to have some airline background, preferably flying airplanes....
Planes fly themselves. If we can drill 4km lateral wells blind within a 5m reservoir surely we can push a few buttons and make a plane fly.
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