Doug Parker: The man who will be kingBy Arnie Weissmann

There is surprisingly little official biographical information about US Airways CEO Doug Parker. On the airline’s corporate website, you’ll find a paragraph summarizing US Airways performance milestones and a string of career moves that trace the outline of his meteoric rise through the aviation industry. He first became CEO of an airline when he was just 38, but you’re left to deduce even his age by counting backward from the year he graduated college.

His Wikipedia page doesn’t provide much more detail; in total, it’s just 13 lines long,
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Although he is an outgoing leader and has made bold and unconventional business moves, he has not cultivated a big, public persona along the lines of airline chiefs from Pan Am’s Juan Trippe to American’s Bob Crandall to Southwest’s Herb Kelleher to Virgin’s Richard Branson. Though highly regarded by the aviation community Kelleher, in particular, is a big fan outside the US Airways hub cities of Phoenix,
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That’s likely to change. Thanks to a merger agreement with American Airlines that will close sometime in the third quarter, he will become CEO of the "new" American on the very day it becomes, by many measures, the largest carrier in the world. carrier.

For Parker, it is a return to American, where he began his career working under Crandall from 1986 to 1991 among an executive team that spawned three additional airline CEOs: current AA chief Tom Horton, David Cush of Virgin America and Spirit’s Ben Baldanza. From there, he moved to Northwest, where he put in four years as vice president and assistant treasurer.

His big break came when he joined America West Airlines in June 1995 as senior vice president and CFO. He worked his way up to executive vice president of the corporate group, then COO, before being named CEO and chairman just 10 days before 9/11.

There is one telling sentence in his official bio that perhaps reveals what he sees as his defining contribution to commercial aviation: "Parker has been one of the most vocal proponents of airline industry consolidation, which has provided a more stable and competitive industry for employees, customers, communities and stockholders."

While he might get arguments on specifics regarding employees, customers and communities, of late stockholders have been very pleased. And one place where Parker is well known, outside his hub cities, is Wall Street, where he has on several occasions impressed investors and analysts with robust returns and bold attempts at consolidation sometimes with airlines that didn’t, at the time, share his enthusiasm for coupling.

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Certain decisions were made fairly quickly: The combined company would retain the name American, its headquarters would remain in Fort Worth and theAAdvantage loyalty program would take over Dividend Miles. US Airways would drop its Star Alliance membership, and American would retain Oneworld status. Although almost all of the either/or decisions leaned toward maintaining the American way of doing things, there was a notable exception: Doug Parker,
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While at America West and US Airways, Parker made a habit of meeting with workers frequently and distributing videos of those town halls, including ones in which he faces hostile questioning from employees who believe he built up profitability on their backs. Indeed, US Airways has traditionally had lower labor costs than other airlines.

But at a recent US Airways media event, Parker heaped praise on the employees of both airlines, and representatives of the pilot and flight attendant unions were on hand to publicly bless the merger. Absent were the mechanics, who set up an informational picket at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to remind journalists that some segments of labor were still feeling neglected during the merger process. Their contract, however, will not expire until after the merger is complete, and a picketer said they were not, at the time,
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While Parker’s history might provide some clues to where he will steer the new American, past performance is not necessarily predictive. He agreed to two interviews with Travel Weekly to explore his plans and ideas for the new American Airlines.

In person, Parker appears both easygoing and energetic, and younger and more boyish than his official photograph would suggest. During the course of the interviews, he discussed where he plans to focus his energy initially, what he sees as American’s role in an increasingly globalized world, his views on both government regulation and IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) plans, and his thoughts on future relationships with travel agents. He also considered how an executive who has focused most of his career on consolidation will run the world’s largest airline when there’s little likelihood of consolidation in the foreseeable future. Excerpts from the combined two interviews are below.

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Travel Weekly: In the past, American Airlines was known for innovation and for introducing new paradigms: hubs, yield management, loyalty programs. These were game changing practices, and competitors were often playing catch up. Today, it seems as if it’s Delta that has the biggest vision and most coherent strategy. It’s ahead on developing international joint ventures; it patiently executed its New York strategy that involved acquiring some of your US Airways assets; it bought a refinery; it gave itself more fleet flexibility. It seems to be able to think outside the box when it needs to. Will the new AA do more than play catch up,
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Doug Parker: The reality is that Delta and United have a head start on the new American. Delta did its merger in [2009] and got that all integrated, and they’re off and running and using their scale to their benefit,
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But it’s not innovation catch up; it’s scale. It’s getting our network to where it can compete with those two networks. Combine [US Airways and American],
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And what I do believe is that we will get to the point where we will have three truly global airlines,
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Parker: [Laughs] He may.

TW: . but if you want to retain the distinction of "largest airline in the world," what are your plans to become relevant to the changing, globalized world?

Parker: First off, on the alliance front, we’re really happy about being a part of Oneworld; it’s a great group of airlines. We also think very highly of Star, by the way; we’ve enjoyed being a part of that alliance. But now I think we have a nicely balanced set of alliances among Star, Oneworld and SkyTeam. We all can get people out across the globe. carriers in particular. A lot of that’s about government policy and giving us the ability to compete with carriers that have governments that give them more support than we get from ours. carrier/government policy issue, which all of us Delta, United and us care about,
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TW: You have a lot of experience with mergers and attempted mergers. Going forward,
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