A really smart guy I used to deal with was COO of a large public Canadian Company that had sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars once told me a story. The company got a new CEO (as happens) and during their first meeting the new CEO asked him what his biggest hurdle was in his current position. He replied to the new CEO “You are.” (Paraphrasing) ‘You’re going to come in here thinking you can do things better than we can, and I’m going to have to spend the next 18 months explaining to you that we know what we’re doing and finally, when you get it, the board will toss you and I’ll have to start all over again with another new CEO.’

If AC is smart (and recent history shows they are ) the new CEO will let the smart people with real data making decision keep on doing their job.

If a new CEO comes in thinking that YYC needs more traffic, or SFO needs more J that CEO is dead in the water.

AC has smart people swimming in tons of data and, every day ,getting better and better tools to help them analyse the data and make these decisions.

Let smart people do their jobs, make sure they have the tools and environment to do their job and stay out of their way is what a good CEO should do. And certainly don’t listen to anybody here.