For The Record- 14. December. 2024

You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine

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KA~

Whenever I forget that I am screaming toward middle age, someone at work will remind me. When I first started, the people I worked with seemed so old, like I was working with my grandparents. Occasionally, I remember—much to my horror—that they weren’t that much older then than I am now.

When those guys (and back then, it was 90% men) started, airlines were run by mavericks. By people with iron will and steel spines. Visionaries who conquered the sky, blazed new trails, and forever altered our ideas of travel. A group that pioneered the idea of moving fast and breaking things. Some things worked, and some did not, but along the way, they reshaped how we conduct business and travel. They made us dream bigger while making the planet smaller.

Today, they might be called “disruptors.”