As most know, The Wings Club is an aviation membership organization based in New York City.  It was founded in 1942 and currently has more than 1,000 members worldwide.  It also has 100 Corporate members.  Most of the world’s airlines are corporate members or have individual members.  See: History -The Wings Club Annually, The Wings Club elects senior members to become Golden Eagle members when their age plus consecutive years as a club member equals 120 for men and 95 for women.Â
This year, one of the seven Golden Eagles elected at The Annual Meeting on March 25 was Harris Herman.  Harris worked at American’s corporate headquarters from 1965 until the move to Dallas, TX in 1979.  He grew up in Boston, MA, received an engineering degree from Northeastern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School and was hired by AA to work in the Methods and Standards Department.  He was promoted nine times with a final role as Assistant Vice President Marketing Administration, reporting to Bob Crandall. After leaving American, he helped start up three companies in the 1980’s, including New York Air and The Pan Am Shuttle.  He was president of The Pan Am Shuttle until it was sold to Delta Air Lines in 1991.For most of the 1990’s he was an independent consultant and also was hired as President of two of his clients. He also joined The Wings Club in 1991, was elected to the Board of Governors, serving for 10 years and then became General Manager for a further 10 years. Upon his retirement in 2012 The Board elected him an Honorary Member of the Club for his contributions over the previous 20 years. Since retirement he has volunteered his time as a consultant to help non-profit organizations address management issues, working on teams representing the Harvard Business School Community Partners and The National Executive Service Corp. Harris and his wife, Phyllis, (also a former AAer) still live on Gramercy Park in Manhattan. keady Â
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