Mike Conway To Helm Air Jamaica

[HPearlyretiree]

From Air Transport world


Air Jamaica named Michael Conway as CEO. Conway co-founded America West Airlines in the early 1980s and served as that carrier's CEO in the early 1990s. He also founded and led National Airlines, a short-lived, Las Vegas-based carrier that failed in December 2000.




Does this mean Air Jamaica is going to expand like crazy, blow through tons of money and go belly up?

 

[hulagirl]

From Air Transport world
Air Jamaica named Michael Conway as CEO. Conway co-founded America West Airlines in the early 1980s and served as that carrier's CEO in the early 1990s. He also founded and led National Airlines, a short-lived, Las Vegas-based carrier that failed in December 2000.
Does this mean Air Jamaica is going to expand like crazy, blow through tons of money and go belly up?

LOL, LOL, LOL....
And I was told it was Ed Beauvais that was the big spender...

 

[HPearlyretiree]

Ed was the big spender at AWA, but when Mike started up National, he was spending like a drunk sailor.

They had raised a huge amount of startup money, but they got careless, they were blowing it on company cars, membership in country clubs, and overpaying the leftover management they poached from America West.

Ed just got a job developing a new airpark in Maricopa.

 

[N903AW]

Does this mean Air Jamaica is going to expand like crazy, blow through tons of money and go belly up?

I can see it now....Air Jamaica purchases 5 used 747-200s from the desert, announces nonstop service from "Mo Bay" to Nagoya!

Moshi Moshi Mon! 😛

 

[HPearlyretiree]

It just goes to show, no matter how many times you fail in the airline industry, someone will offer you a job.

Just ask the late, not so great Marty Shugrue.

 

[HPearlyretiree]

Eastern Airlines

Pan Am II

I think he was at CO for a while.



Another guy that has been everywhere and done a terrible job is David Banmiller

Aloha

Sun Country

Air Portland (paper airline)

Air Jamaica

Pan Am

Sun Jet

American

TWA

Air Cal

 

[700UW]

Martin R. Shugrue Jr., 58, a longtime airline executive, died on March 7th at his home in Houston.

Shugrue was born in Providence, R.I., and was a graduate of Providence College. After serving as a aircraft carrier Navy pilot, Shugrue joined Pan American World Airways in 1968. When furloughed in 1969, he continued working for Pan Am in various management positions.

At the company's headquarters in New York, he worked in personnel and labor relations positions, followed by assignments in Washington and later London, where he was responsible for Western Europe. He returned to Pan Am headquarters where he became senior vice president for Human Resources, and then Marketing and Sales. In early 1983, he was elected vice chairman of Pan Am's board.

Shugrue left Pan Am in 1988 to become president of Continental Airlines. Thereafter, he was appointed Trustee-in-Bankruptcy of Eastern Airlines and moved that company almost, but not quite, to the point of recovery.

With Eastern's demise, Shugrue returned to try to bring his long-cherished dream to reality, the renaissance of Pan Am. With his own capital and other financing support, he started the new Pan Am in 1996, only to see it fail in 1998.

During the last year, Shugrue had a business relationship with Aviation Management Services, a consulting firm specializing in aviation in Latin America.