I'm not sure where the airline/airport industry find a lot of their managers, especially middle level, but it's clear they aren't hanging around the gates at Harvard and Oxford looking for recruits....
That's got to be the understatement of the year. It's been nearly 20 years since I came into commercial aviation from the military, thinking I would make my way into management myself. Being an ex-officer, it seemed to me to be the obvious way to go. I was soon enlightened. Whilst there are some sharp cookies around in aviation/airline management, a depressing number I have come across would not even make competent NCOs so lacking are they in any concept of real leadership and in any ability rapidly to analyse a problem and find a solution. And don't get me started on the way they mangle the English language.
