American Airlines VP of Planning: Vasu Raja

Talking Points

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Vasu Raja, the Vice President of Planning at America Airlines shares details about growing DFW to 900 departures, the why and how around scaling back NYC flights, and explains why you won't be flying on any 767s to your international destinations this summer.

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0:33.0	Welcome to today's episode of Talking Points.
0:38.0	You know, we've interviewed CEOs and coos and all different types of people from the
0:47.0	travel industry but never have we had a head of network planning so I'm
0:51.2	excited to introduce our guest Vassu Raja, who is the VP of network planning
0:56.0	at American Airlines.
0:57.0	Thanks for joining us.
0:58.0	Thanks for having me.
0:59.0	You know, when I looked at your LinkedIn profile, I had to keep clicking more and more when looking at all the different
1:06.0	positions that you had at American Airlines.
1:08.6	I could never hold a job, Brian.
1:10.3	You've really run the gamut. Yeah.
1:13.0	And so from the looks of it, you went to business school.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	And you got in in, was it revenue management?
1:18.0	I started in sales planning actually in 2004.
1:22.0	Yeah, at the old AMR.
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