{"id":539564,"date":"2010-04-22T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/22\/gm-ceo-whitacre-paid-for-own-charter-flight-to-d-c\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:31:00","slug":"gm-ceo-whitacre-paid-for-own-charter-flight-to-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539564","title":{"rendered":"GM CEO Whitacre paid for own charter flight to D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wednesday was a busy day for General Motors<\/a> CEO Ed Whitacre by anyone’s definition. He started the day with a trip to The General’s Fairfax plant in Kansas to tell the world that GM was paying off the remaining $5.8 billion<\/a> in government loans five years ahead of schedule and to announce a $257 million investment<\/a> for a pair of plants. After the announcement came a trip to Washington to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Michigan delegation from Congress. <\/p>\n

There was no way for Whitacre to rock a Chevy Malibu<\/a> from Kansas to Washington in a couple hours, so Big Ed instead chartered a flight to our nation’s capitol. You may remember what happened the last time an automaker CEO flew into Washington. It wasn’t pretty<\/a>. So instead of using a private jet on company funds, The Detroit News<\/em> reports that Whitacre busted out the check book and paid for the flight to Washington on his own dime. Given the fact that Big Ed received a $158 million retirement package from AT&T (and part-time use of a private plane<\/a>), we’re guessing the trip isn’t going to break the bank. <\/p>\n

We’re a long way away from knowing whether Whitacre is as good an automotive CEO as he was a telecommunications chief executive, but the early returns show that the burly Texan at least pays attention to history. <\/p>\n

[Source: The Detroit News<\/a> | Image: Steve Fecht\/General Motors]<\/p>\n

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