If you’ve ever wanted to be the CEO of an “airline,” this is your chance…
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Avatar Airlines’ shameless CEO job posting
Avatar Airlines is an airline startup that’s decades in the making (more on that in a bit). If you’ve always wanted to work for the airline (who hasn’t?), this is your chance. The company is now seeking a new CEO, as flagged by Brett Snyder. Here’s what the company is looking for:
Are you a visionary leader who thrives on innovation and has a talent for securing the financial backing needed to turn dreams into reality? Avatar Airlines, an ambitious startup set to revolutionize the airline industry, is searching for an exceptional Chief Executive. This unique leadership role could be your opportunity to steer a groundbreaking company to unprecedented heights. Prior airline experience is not a requirement.
Are you ready to lead an aviation revolution? Avatar Airlines, poised to redefine the airline industry, is seeking a new Chief Executive Officer to take over from the current CEO/Founder who at 82 will retire to the Chairman position. This is not just any leadership role—it’s your opportunity to shape the future of air travel.
Avatar Airlines is at the cutting edge of the aviation industry, combining innovative technology, unparalleled customer service, and a unique business model that promises to make air travel more affordable and accessible than ever before. Our mission is simple yet ambitious: to revolutionize the way people fly.
Avatar’s successful candidate will have a minimum of twenty years leadership experience with the ability and vision to build Avatar into a multi-billion dollar public company. Twenty years of work have gone into Avatar’s making and much has been accomplished, now it all rests with Avatar’s ability to raise the necessary funds to get off the ground.
As you can see, the company is looking for a top candidate, so what’s the compensation like? You can expect a base salary of $500,000, plus a performance bonus of up to 50%. There are only two very minor details you should be aware of if you’re going to apply for the job:
- You need to be ready to invest $250,000 in the airline, as this “provides the assurance of knowing our CEO will be fully engaged and dedicated to seeing Avatar get off the ground,” and these funds will be used to “begin marketing Avatar’s $300,000,000 offering”
- Oh, and that salary being promised is “based on Avatar’s ability to raise the funds necessary to get off the ground and will be deferred until such time”
I love how the job posting simultaneously says that 20 years of work have gone into launching Avatar, yet the CEO will only be paid when the airline actually launches. If the salary only applies when the airline launches, then isn’t that enough assurance of knowing the CEO will be fully engaged and dedicated?!
The existing US carriers should be worried that they may lose their CEOs — how can anyone say no to this opportunity?! I mean, why should Ed Bastian settle for his $34.2 million in compensation, when he could instead spend $250,000 for a job, and only get paid up to $750,000 per year after the airline launches?
What is Avatar Airlines, anyway?
I’ve written in the past about Avatar Airlines, and oh my gosh. For some background, the Avatar Airlines concept has been in the works all the way since 1992. At the time, the company was referred to as Family Airlines. Long story short, the airline wants to operate a fleet of Boeing 747s, primarily serving domestic routes, operating as a low cost carrier.
Here’s how the airline describes its mission:
There has been an alarming industry trend of downsizing over the last decade, and not for the better. At least not where passengers are concerned. You know the flying experience we’re talking about. The choices you have to make every time you fly. Suffer in silence, or pay the price. Pick your poison.
But all of that will soon change. Avatar will pioneer a new age of budget travel for a new millennium. Harnessing the economies of scale, Avatar will make exclusive use of the jumbo Boeing 747 in a high-passenger configuration (581 seats) without sacrificing creature comforts such as seat pitch (“personal space”) roomy overhead bins and wide-body dual aisles.
Avatar’s configuration is projected to result in one of the lowest average cost per seat mile (CSM) in the industry, approximately 6 cents! We expect to pass those savings on directly to our passengers by offering every day fares of about 40-50% less than the competition. Let’s give some perspective: provided seats are purchased 30 days in advance, a projected one way fare from Miami to JFK, just $49; from LA to NY just $79.
People that rarely fly will fly more often. People that never fly, will now be able to afford air travel.
Avatar expects to blaze a trail and start a new trend. A seismic shift. One that will have passengers looking up as well as down.
Avatar Airlines won’t just have low fares because of unit costs, but also because the planes will be flying billboards, with marketing opportunities for third parties on everything from the aircraft exterior, to the overhead bins, to the tray tables. No, seriously.
Bottom line
Avatar Airlines is seeking a new CEO. The compensation package leaves a bit to be desired — you have to pay to get the job, and will only be paid if the airline actually launches (which the current management team has been unsuccessful accomplishing in the past 30+ years).
So, who is applying to be CEO of Avatar Airlines?
I hear Vasu is looking for a gig. Wonder if they can move their base to El Paso.
While this plan was ludicrous enough in 1992, it's funny that they're still trying to pretend this is a thing after 747 production has already ended. Even if they somehow managed to raise the capital for this, where would they get the 747s? Are they going to start buying 30-year-old retired 744s out of the boneyard? Or somehow convince Lufthansa to sell their 747-8s? Or maybe their plan is to just convince Boeing to re-open...
While this plan was ludicrous enough in 1992, it's funny that they're still trying to pretend this is a thing after 747 production has already ended. Even if they somehow managed to raise the capital for this, where would they get the 747s? Are they going to start buying 30-year-old retired 744s out of the boneyard? Or somehow convince Lufthansa to sell their 747-8s? Or maybe their plan is to just convince Boeing to re-open the 747 line just for their fake company? I guess with all of the other crazy aspects of their "business plan," that would seem less unreasonable by comparison.
Quik, where do I wire the funds to?
Have to give credit to author of post, sounds like my scheming brother wrote it, don't forget to kick up to the Big Guy
u ok bruh?
Is that a scheme for wealthy foreigners to get a green card?
Everyone RELAX :-) This is Avatar Airlines. You board the "plane", get comfy in your seat as the flight technician places the virtual reality headset on you. Depending on the package you ordered, you may experience an excellent oak aged chardonnay, or a domestic Mad Dog 20 / 20, while awaiting your dinner service. Which may be a Lobster bisque or chili dog and fries.
Once you "land", your private car will be waiting...
Everyone RELAX :-) This is Avatar Airlines. You board the "plane", get comfy in your seat as the flight technician places the virtual reality headset on you. Depending on the package you ordered, you may experience an excellent oak aged chardonnay, or a domestic Mad Dog 20 / 20, while awaiting your dinner service. Which may be a Lobster bisque or chili dog and fries.
Once you "land", your private car will be waiting to transfer you by limousine to the Four Seasons in Hawaii or by Prius to the Hotel 6 in Elkhart, Indiana.
It's Avatar Airlines, "Where your vacation can be ANYTHING you IMAGINE!"
lol!
pay for the job and then fly aircraft that look like municipal buses inside and out! People will gladly pay... $4 to fly!
Come on. You have to admire the audacity to actually seriously put this out there! Love it
I got it! I know just the guy who would do something like that: Sam Chui!
This might be the bullet that ends it all.
Something like this is so close to a Ponzi, the feds might actually shut it down for good.
I hope not, I love the reporting on these airlines. Just when you forget they "exist" Lucky writes another article
What happens when the wrap starts peeling off at 35000ft?
Depends on who you ask, Airbus or Akbar Al Baker.
Plane wraps have been in use for decades. That's about the only reasonable part of this scheme.
You know, I would if I hadn’t just gotten that call back from Baltia.
Just a scam in which the scam finds a new way to scam people. Flying 747s wrapped in some brand is going to make flying 747s profitable. I think a baggage handler could figure that one out.
Malaysia Airlines called, they want their font back.
Maybe the CEO of Global Airlines fancies his chances, perhaps engage in a JV or code-share agreement to sweeten the deal.
The Global Airlines CEO just got married and is on his way to the honeymoon.
First A380 of Global Airlines meanwhile is apparently progressing through maintenance, repair, overhaul. After having flown from desert storage in the US to Glasgow-Prestwick. Which funnily enough was the most tracked flight on Flightradar ever.
@Max
For the record, that Global Airlines flight was not even close to being the most tracked flight ever. James Asquith posted a screenshot at the time of the flight you’re reffering to having about 50k views on Flightradar24. Queen Elizabeth’s final flight had about 6mil views by multiple accounts.
These companies needs to stop giving corporate America new ideas....
Soon someone like Musk is going to start asking fanboys and girls to contribute to "work" at his company and a yearly contribution to his pay package.
So “I’ll pay YOU to hire ME.” Yeah, that’s not the way the game is played…