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Continental Airlines: Gordon Bethune

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

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The Chief Executive of Continental Airlines

One of the first things that you said needed to happen was you had to shut down a bunch of routes. What were some of the unprofitable routes that you shut down? 20%, almost 20% not quite. Of our route system was cash negative, which meant, guy, you could have put the parking brake on, evacuated the airplane, and save money, don't fly it.

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