What was it like to work at Eastern Airlines?
It was very different from Harvard. Many of my colleagues had military backgrounds, and I did not. Eastern CEO Frank Borman went to West Point, for example. I enjoyed the opportunity to work with colleagues that had a background so different from my own. I moved every year during this point in my career because Eastern wanted me to get experience in a variety of places. What type of projects did you take on at Eastern? Setting up Easterns routes in Latin America was one of the most challenging and fascinating projects. I oversaw the opening of the Panama Airport, Eastern’s first airport in Latin America. Then when I was based in Miami, Braniff Air went bankrupt and Eastern bought up all of its routes. I was put in charge of getting our airport operations team deployed on all of those routes and getting Eastern planes flying to those airports on the same day that Braniff was to file for bankruptcy. In a matter of hours, we managed a massive mobilization of airport operations experts to
