New IOC...Named for Bob Baker

[MetalMover]

A name from the glory days of AA
 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-break-ground-robert-160000365.html

 

[eolesen]

Bob was the penultimate airline executive. He left us way too soon...

 

[Captain Reality]

Why did they name it after Bob Baker? They should have named it after Don Carty. He is the most responsible for making AA what it is today.

 

[eolesen]

If you have to ask the question, you probably have no idea who Baker was.

 

[MetalMover]

Why did they name it after Bob Baker? They should have named it after Don Carty. He is the most responsible for making AA what it is today.

You're serious?

 

[Rogallo]

Sarcasm, noun: the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult someone, to show irritation, or to be funny!

 

[Captain Reality]

Carty was the leader with visión to buy TWA and used the threat of bankruptcy to start the gutting of our unión contracts. Without Carty's leadership AA would have never survived the 2000's.

 

[MetalMover]

Carty was the leader with visión to buy TWA and used the threat of bankruptcy to start the gutting of our unión contracts. Without Carty's leadership AA would have never survived the 2000's.

Rogallo,,,,do you still think he's being sarcastic?
He said Carty made AA what it is today...you can figure the rest out.
Using this logic, maybe it should be named the Tom Horton Center.

 

[1AA]

Carty was the leader with visión to buy TWA and used the threat of bankruptcy to start the gutting of our unión contracts. Without Carty's leadership AA would have never survived the 2000's.

Not to mention the millions he spent on trying to acquire Canadian Air.

 

[AC AA LA FA]

at least it's not the Redding command and control center-

 

[eolesen]

Mentioning Baker and Carty in the same sentence is an insult...

 

[Rogallo]

Rogallo,,,,do you still think he's being sarcastic?

 
If, in his own mind, he believes that, then no!

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

Not to mention the millions he spent on trying to acquire Canadian Air.

 
I know this is off topic a bit, but I think AA and CP were a good fit.  Also, the stunt he pulled with Onex Corp. in trying to skirt Canadian foreign ownership laws while trying to acquire AC - if it would have worked - could have been genius.
 

Rogallo,,,,do you still think he's being sarcastic?
He said Carty made AA what it is today...you can figure the rest out.
Using this logic, maybe it should be named the Tom Horton Center.

 
And just to continue off topic and on the Canadian, eh, theme - if it ever was called the Tom Horton Center, could a Tim Hortons open up across the street?