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New Parent Firm Names CEO at Charlotte, N.C.-Based Carrier.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1999 by Reed, Ted
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 3 -- It didn't take long to put a new pilot at the controls of CCAir.
Five weeks after Phoenix-based Mesa Air took over the Charlotte carrier that operates as US Airways Express, it installed commuter aviation veteran Tim Coon as president and chief operating officer.
He replaces Ken Gann, who said he was ready to retire after 38 years in the airline business and nine years turning around CCAir. Gann made $160,000 annually.
Mesa paid $45 million for CCAir, which has about 90 daily departures from Charlotte, where it employs about 600 of its 633 workers. In 1998, CCAir earned $3.4 million on revenues of $71 million.
Coon, 50, said he will have an opportunity Gann never had: to operate...
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