New American Airlines president aims high, relishes challenge ahead
Mr Tom Horton grew up in a neighborhood where people aimed high in their careers. Now he's trying to match them.
Of course, the new president of American Airlines Inc. and parent AMR Corp. isn't literally emulating the fathers of some of his neighborhood buddies. He has no plans to go into outer space.
Tom Horton
Horton grew up in the Houston suburb of Taylor Lake Village, where four of the original seven astronauts lived not far from the Johnson Space Center.
Even today, he speaks with great admiration about the fathers he saw hanging around the neighborhood.
"They were regular superheroes," Horton said in a recent interview. "They were the most amazing people you could imagine, physically and intellectually, and just had capabilities that were extraordinary."
Now Horton simply has to duplicate their performance as he works with Gerard Arpey, chairman and chief executive at American and AMR, to right the ship at the Fort Worth-based airline.
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