Spirit’s current President, Bob Fornaro, has seen a lot in this industry. After stints at TWA and Northwest, he spent much of the 1990s at USAir. At the end of the decade, he joined AirTran as President and ran that airline until Southwest bought it a dozen years later. Apparently …
Category: Across the Aisle Interviews
Welcome back to the third, final, and probably most controversial installment in my 
Across the Aisle interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian. If you missed part one about Los Angeles and the Pacific, find it here. And if you missed part two about getting cocky, arriving on time, and …
Grab some coffee (or a beer) and get comfy. This is the longest chunk of my interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian. If you missed part one on Los Angeles and the Pacific, you can find it here. Part three focusing on the Middle East carriers will follow later …
Let’s call this “Delta week,” because you’re going to be getting a lot of CEO Ed Bastian here. When he was in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago for an employee event, I sat with him to do an Across the Aisle interview. He certainly didn’t pull punches, and I …
I know some of you will be really happy to see that the podcast is back! As
I mentioned before, it won’t be a regularly-published thing, but when I have a good opportunity to sit with someone interesting, I’m going to put it live. And today, we have an interesting …
Yep, it’s time for another Long Beach post. But this time, I’m only writing about it because Southwest CEO Gary Kelly was in town, and he sat for a Q&A session with me and some local reporters. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia was also there. Gary came in to announce …
Yesterday I published the first half of my interview with International Airlines Group CEO Willie Walsh on his new long-haul, low-cost startup Level. Today, we finish it up with his characteristically blunt take on why Level is going to work while other attempts at long-haul, low-cost won’t.
Brett Snyder, Cranky …
International Airlines Group (IAG) launched its fifth airline brand last week. The name is Level, and while you’ll have a hard time finding its website for now (“level airline” doesn’t bring it up on the first page of Google results for me), IAG is betting that this is going to …
If you enjoyed the first part of my interview with United CEO Oscar Munoz, you’ll be happy to know that the back half of our chat is now live.
In this 18m30s recording, we talk a lot about how Oscar built his management team, starting with former Allegiant President and …
Remember that whole podcast thing? Well I’ve spoken with a variety of readers/listeners and learned that it’s the interviews with industry people that they liked most out of that experiment. I actually agree with that sentiment, since a transcript of an interview isn’t the same as hearing it directly from …
Another Tuesday, so it’s time for another
podcast. This, actually, will be the last Tuesday podcast. My finger has healed to the point where I can now type (with breaks), so the regular posting schedule will return next week after the Thanksgiving holiday. Whether the podcast will live on… well, …
When I asked last week, many of you really liked the idea of a podcast. So here it is. This one went longer than planned (17m50s) because I repurposed an interview I was planning to transcribe for my Across the Aisle series. Now you get to hear me speak with …