Frank Lorenzo endorses Doug Parker and US Air

BobDDuck said:
I don't see anybody who is actually still in the business taking his word as gospel. About 6 years ago, somebody in a town hall meeting in CLT asked Parker about Lorenzo in reference to something else and basically Parker said "when I don't have anything nice to say I don't say anything."

Remember, media outlets will give pretty much anybody a microphone and a soap box (hell, they gave you one through the 3407 Families) if they think it will drive up ratings.
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No, but the media is marketing him as a subject matter expert. And regardless of what Parker says publicly, his methods say otherwise. If you were following the methods of somebody forced to sign a lifetime no-compete clause, would you cop to it? But Parker has used mergers, hostile takeover bids, and bankruptcy merger acquisition to grow USAir/New American/Etc.

Leveraged buyout and takeover was Lorenzo's shtick. Remember Parker's run at Delta?

As for soapboxing- the media didn't give me one via the 3407 families- I put up a website and started doing interviews. I personally never interacted directly with the Families until I sent an email congratulating them on the success of their efforts. They media talked to me because I was willing to talk and put my name on things. I gave the issue a face that told the story.

That's the problem with invoking Lorenzo in the matter. Invoking him as the face that tells the story because he's the subject matter expect is hugely disingenuous. Setting him up as a credible source potentially validates his methods without giving equal time to the devastation to the industry that he caused.
 
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Firebird2XC said:
No, but the media is marketing him as a subject matter expert. And regardless of what Parker says publicly, his methods say otherwise. If you were following the methods of somebody forced to sign a lifetime no-compete clause, would you cop to it? But Parker has used mergers, hostile takeover bids, and bankruptcy merger acquisition to grow USAir/New American/Etc.

Leveraged buyout and takeover was Lorenzo's shtick. Remember Parker's run at Delta?

As for soapboxing- the media didn't give me one via the 3407 families- I put up a website and started doing interviews. I personally never interacted directly with the Families until I sent an email congratulating them on the success of their efforts. They media talked to me because I was willing to talk and put my name on things. I gave the issue a face that told the story.

That's the problem with invoking Lorenzo in the matter. Invoking him as the face that tells the story because he's the subject matter expect is hugely disingenuous. Setting him up as a credible source potentially validates his methods without giving equal time to the devastation to the industry that he caused.
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Kind of off topic, but did you suffer any negative consequences for your drive behind the 1500 hr rule? Anything "behind the scenes", any intimidation, etc? Just curious.
 
pullup said:
Kind of off topic, but did you suffer any negative consequences for your drive behind the 1500 hr rule? Anything "behind the scenes", any intimidation, etc? Just curious.
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Not that I know of. A very senior company official got pretty peeved with me for a while. We played phone tag for about a week and it sorta just blew over. It was kinda funny- apparently in ten years of representing pilots, one ALPA volunteer said I was the only one to have drawn the ire of that particular guy.

Mostly I'm concerned that I've branded myself in any future interviews as a troublemaker. Union work is one thing- it goes with the business. But people talking to the press tends to really piss off the office types.

I heard a rumor that a certain pilot who worked with a particular set of reporters already had that happen to him. I haven't been able to confirm that, though.
 
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