In 2006 we awarded our first-ever PlaneBusiness “Self-Enrichment” Award.

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In 2004 PlaneBusiness awarded its first award for airline management excellence. That award is the PlaneBusiness Wild Turkey Award.

Says something when we never are at a loss for potential candidates for the PlaneBusiness Ron Allen Airline Management Award — but in nine years of publishing we have only found one soul worthy of extra special mention.

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In 1998 PlaneBusiness Banter awarded the first PlaneBusiness Ron Allen Airline Management Award to…..Ron Allen. Ron was then Chairman and CEO of Delta Air Lines.



We felt that Ron so well embodied those traits that an airline CEO should not possess — that he had been such a detriment, or perhaps impediment, to the financial success and innovative progress of Delta Air Lines while at its helm — that his moniker should grace each successive award.

And just what were our complaints with Ron?

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