Alvin "Al" Lindbergh Feldman was an airline executive and mechanical engineer.
16 Facts About Alvin Feldman
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Alvin Feldman was the president and chief executive of Frontier Airlines for nine years before taking over as president at Continental Airlines.
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Alvin Feldman was a strong supporter of airline unions and airline deregulation.
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Alvin Feldman was given his middle name, Lindbergh, after Charles Lindbergh's famous Paris flight in the same year.
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Alvin Feldman attended Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
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Alvin Feldman worked at Aerojet-General for 17 years as an aerospace contractor.
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Alvin Feldman eventually became the president and Chief Operating Officer of Aerojet Nuclear Systems Company, a division of Aerojet-General.
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In 1971, Alvin Feldman moved to Denver in order to lead Frontier Airlines, which had been struggling.
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Continental was struggling, and hoped Alvin Feldman would be able to transform the company as he had with Frontier.
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Alvin Feldman replaced Robert Six as President and Chief Executive Officer.
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Six, then 73, had a very high opinion of Alvin Feldman and was confident that he would be able to reduce Continental's losses.
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Hardly a year after Alvin Feldman moved to Continental, Texas International made a move to acquire the airline.
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Worried that Lorenzo's acquisition of the company would mean losing their jobs and that Lorenzo was anti-union, the employees of Continental came to Alvin Feldman to retain hold of the company.
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Alvin Feldman had received offers to become chief executive at Pan Am and Twentieth Century Fox, but chose to stay at Continental.
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Alvin Feldman attempted to give Continental's employees control of the company via an employee stock ownership plan.
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Alvin Feldman is buried with his wife in El Camino Memorial Park, near San Diego.