New CIO

[UPNAWAY]

Brad Jenson from Sr VP from Sabre.
Prior to that he was at American for 16 years including Sr Director Planning as in (scheduling, planning and pricing).

Sounds like a real good hire.

 

[legacy-to-LCC]

Brad Jenson from Sr VP from Sabre.
Prior to that he was at American for 16 years including Sr Director Planning as in (scheduling, planning and pricing).

Sounds like a real good hire.

asu grad?

 

[rvolkcpa]

asu grad?

He has a Masters degree from the Wharton School of Business.

Hopefully he will either upgrade SHARES or convince management to replace it with SABRE.

 

[N965VJ]

Business Wire Linkage

 

[SS255]

Sounds and looks like a really impressive hire.

This could be a really good hire for customers and employees. Things like the W-2 snafu, the continued SHARES issues. The Web site and so on.

One thing I have noticed of late is that US seems to have the ability to learn from their mistakes, just not the ability to admit them and I think that's something I can live with.

Considering that actions speak louder than words, I will take actions over words any day of the week!

US's website lags so far behind its competitors that it almost might make more sense to trash it and build a new one from scratch.

 

[signals]

One thing I have noticed of late is that US seems to have the ability to learn from their mistakes, just not the ability to admit them and I think that's something I can live with.

Welcome to Corporate America!

 

[ggiby]

He has a Masters degree from the Wharton School of Business.

Hopefully he will either upgrade SHARES or convince management to replace it with SABRE.

Wow.... what a concept???? Go to SABRE??? The easiest program in the industry???

That would be was too easy.....

 

[ggiby]

Wow.... what a concept???? Go to SABRE??? The easiest program in the industry???

That would be was too easy.....

whoops...

typo....

That would be "way" too easy..... my fingers are getting away too quickly....!! 😱

 

[jimntx]

He has a Masters degree from the Wharton School of Business.

Hopefully he will either upgrade SHARES or convince management to replace it with SABRE.

Don't count on it. You do know that AMR has the replacement for SABRE under development. It's 4+ years away, and as I understand it, Sabre Holdings (the spinoff from AMR) is NOT the developer company. They have finally decided that a system that has some code that is over 40 years old needs replacing. Making any modification except minor changes has become a time-consuming, expensive proposition.

As someone who spent 20+ years in the Information Technology industry, I can tell you that SABRE was always held up in classes and seminars as the gold-standard business applicaton. However, SABRE was over 10 or 15 years old when I started in the business and I've been out of it for almost 10 years.

 

[HPearlyretiree]

I laughed when I first saw it, AWA had a 747 Inflight Manager named Brad Jensen back in the day, had to double check that it was not him.

It wasn't.

 

[luvthe9]

Brad Jenson from Sr VP from Sabre.
Prior to that he was at American for 16 years including Sr Director Planning as in (scheduling, planning and pricing).

Sounds like a real good hire.

And this benefits the employees how?

 

[Crzipilot]

Obviously given the time between Joe Beery's departure and Mr Jensen's arrival US Airways clearly took a great deal of time in the vetting process to get someone who was competent to lead the airlines technology efforts.

Might it also had been, they couldln't find someone to fill the position for as cheap as they wanted???? So they had to keep increasing the offer until they found someone to bite?

Nahhhh couldn't be that.

What's this guys story, he was 16 years as managing director schedule planning and switched to Sabre. Sounds like he either A. wore out his welcome at AA. B. Made it as far as he could in the AA system, with his abilities, and wasn't going any further so he bails out.... Just curious....16 years and leave? A little strange in the airline biz isn't it?

 

[Crzipilot]

True, there are numerous reason for the upper echelon to move along. Some their fault, others not. So was just curious as to, at 16 years the guy moves along. I would imagine there is some sort of executive retirement plan in place, and a very good chance the vesting is 20 years. If so he would have left just shy of that.....

Dunno we'll see, actions always better than words...

 

[NiceLandingCaptain]

Living in Texas sucks. And all of that Saber hardware us bunckered deep underground.

Whilst here in Tempe the living is good, and BJ will have his own spacious 9th floor corner office with a sweet view of the lovely Salt River bed. His gilded parachute will be neatly tucked away in the upper right hand drawer of his desk, no doubt.

 

[BoeingBoy]

And all of that Saber hardware us bunckered deep underground.

I thought it was somewhere around Tulsa, although that was the computers and stuff - not the head shed. Tornado proof, earthquake proof (as much as anything can be), 3 or 4 independent sources of power, etc. Of course, that was back when AA owned Sabre so it may have changed since then.

Jim