The problem nowadays is that airlines are run by bean counters and not by aviation professionals. You get a CEO (appointed by a board made up of investors who know SFA about the business) who knows SFA about the airline business, who then gets rid of anybody who knows anything about the airline business in case they might show up his total lack of capability. Swiss Air anybody?
I'm glad I got out of that side of the business 35 years ago when airlines where still run by professionals who had moved up through the ranks and got years of practical experience before they took over the top job. It used to be said that Airline industry was one of the few that you could never learn from books, only by hand on experience. Nowadays it seems that you can become chief pilot 10 minutes after you get your PPL
