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Remember the Magic...: The Story of Horizon Air

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There is no way this author was an employee of Horizon Air. This book overglorifies a group of managers that failed to uphold a dream of the airline's founder, Milt Kuolt. It is made out to be like an "ole' boys' club" atmosphere while, in truth, there was much turmoil. Former Vice-president turned CEO, George Bagley, tossing a cup of hot coffee in a Maintenance V.P.'s face??? not addressed. Mr. Bagley's written assault on his pilot group during contract negotiations calling them "juvenille deliquents in uniform..." and "cowards" (also not addressed). This book gives a good factual chronology of events in the airline's history but doesn't address the morale problems.

An interesting subject matter, but the book is incredibly poorly written and organized given that it was written by a PR professional. It really jumps all over the place with often no background or addressing topics that it is assumed the reader understands even though they are only mentioned much later in the book. Also strange how the author writes himself into the story in the third person. This could have been a much, much better book but it seems the author wrote it more to please the "hero" than to objectively tell a story.

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