Could it happen?

[MCI transplant]

<_< ------- Is this where ex Airline CEO's go after they leave, or are fired ? ---- Would you like to know where ( EX TWA CEO,) Jeff Erickson Is. I know! It was reported in an aircraft / airline magazine A few years back that he is now running a small airline in Africa,,, Wonder why a man that ran one of the largest airlines in the USA is now hiding in Africa. What does he know and why did he leave the USA? This from an ex TWA machinist ( MCI 89 -2004) Charles Smith.

 

[jimntx]

If you know where he is it isn't exactly "hiding." Let's see if we can come up with some other scenarios...maybe he has always WANTED to live in Africa. Maybe African startup businesses are in desperate need of American expertise. Maybe he isn't in Africa and your TWA machinist is just starting unfounded rumors. If the best you've got is word of mouth from someone else who may have the same axe to grind, why bother?

 

[eolesen]

Possibly old news. After TWA, his friends at SH&E hooked him up for a 9 month stint to oversee Air Afrique's bankruptcy & restructuring, and left when Air France bought them in summer of 2001. AF closed them down after 9/11.

Jeff went on to be the CEO of Atlas Air in 2004, and retired in 2006. He was said to be happily retired in Arizona, but maybe with the downturn in real estate there he decided to go back to work...

 

[JAMAKE1]

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Jeff Erickson is CEO of Victory Jet, a Part 121 corporate charter carrier based in Greensboro, NC that is planning to launch later this year.

http://www.victoryjet.us/jeff.html

 

[Hopeful]

No matter how good or bad a CEO may have proven him/herself to be, they all belong to the most exclusive union of all.....THE GOOD OL BOYS CLUB..

They could be the worst of the worst, but some other firm will hire them....Once the CEO title is attained it is treated like a native British citizen getting knighted by the Queen and "FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, YE SHALL BE SIR CEO...BLAH BLAH BLAH..."

 

[eolesen]

Yep, just like the guy ranked last in his class at medical school is called "Doctor"

If you're a good manager, you'll find another job even if the company you work for is a basket case. And being a CEO is nothing more than being a good manager.

I suspect very few high profile CEOs actually get a second gig. But one who has been thru a bankruptcy? You bet they're in demand. Even if the outcome is failure, the fact they've been in a lead role thru the process is still valuable experience to learn from.

 

[Hopeful]

Yep, just like the guy ranked last in his class at medical school is called "Doctor"

If you're a good manager, you'll find another job even if the company you work for is a basket case. And being a CEO is nothing more than being a good manager.

I suspect very few high profile CEOs actually get a second gig. But one who has been thru a bankruptcy? You bet they're in demand. Even if the outcome is failure, the fact they've been in a lead role thru the process is still valuable experience to learn from.

I have more faith and trust in my doctor than in my CEO.

 

[Frank Szabo]

Yep, just like the guy ranked last in his class at medical school is called "Doctor"

If you're a good manager, you'll find another job even if the company you work for is a basket case. And being a CEO is nothing more than being a good manager.

I suspect very few high profile CEOs actually get a second gig. But one who has been thru a bankruptcy? You bet they're in demand. Even if the outcome is failure, the fact they've been in a lead role thru the process is still valuable experience to learn from.

This is exactly why almost all American business has turned into the cluster#### it's become - only failures NEED apply.

 

[frontline]

This is exactly why almost all American business has turned into the cluster#### it's become - only failures NEED apply.

I think it's easy to always place blame up the food chain. What irritates me is that you guys sound like a broken record. It's everyone's fault but your own!

 

[Buck]

I think it's easy to always place blame up the food chain. What irritates me is that you guys sound like a broken record. It's everyone's fault but your own!

If you are irritated, quit reading here?

Do not think the peons are just blaming up the company foods chain, the peons are blaming up the TWU food chain also. Broken records are mostly a thing of the past, however I have seen a few broken Cd's and DVDs lately....

 

[eolesen]

And yet you guys stick with the TWU.

 

[Buck]

And yet you guys stick with the TWU.

Yes, Eric and I do not see you helping us rid ourselves of this problem. 🙄

 

[Frank Szabo]

And yet you guys stick with the TWU.

I haven't had an opportunity to make a choice nor has anyone else. I'd be quite pleased to kick their collective ass off the property.

Let's have a fair election without a bunch of dead and retired people on the eligibility list and I'll be happy, as would quite a few others.

Remember - now there are three choices: Option a, Option b, or Option c (none).

 

[eolesen]

Yes, Eric and I do not see you helping us rid ourselves of this problem. 🙄

I offered to send money, but not until card counts are published. And maybe you weren't reading as much a year ago, but I've been openly supportive of AMP.

I know y'all think I hate unions, so why would I support dumping the TWU?...

Maybe you forget that I'm the one who stepped forward to moderate a debate between TWU and AMFA years back. Got in a shitload of trouble over that when the TWU complained for "mangement appearing to take sides"

Now that I'm beyond HR's reach, it is by no means a grudge or an obsession, but anything I can do to piss on Jim Little's Wheaties is simply "restore and more" from my POV.

 

[Hopeful]

I think it's easy to always place blame up the food chain. What irritates me is that you guys sound like a broken record. It's everyone's fault but your own!

Right..Just like AA blaming labor for their woes, but never their mismanagement. Guess you are not irritated by the company broken record rhethoric.
We gave them billions and they squandered it.