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When Herb Kelleher, the legendary Founder of Southwest Airlines, passed away on January 3, 2019, at the age of 87, he left behind a legacy of wisdom and insight as inspiring and transformative as the Company he forged.
Apr 20, 2021 · Herb & Rollin: The Birth of Southwest Airlines. Update. 1967 – 1971. Photos. Apr 20, 2021. Southwest Founders Herb Kelleher (left) and Rollin King. Initially, the pitch didn't just sound far-fetched, it sounded like the stuff quick-fire bankruptcies were made of.
Apr 20, 2016 · And that is the story of how Southwest Airlines began, on a simple napkin in a bar in San Antonio. The two men were Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. Rollin was a pilot and a businessman and Herb was a lawyer. Rollin would become a managing director of the company and Herb would become its chairman.
Together, Herb and Colleen—as all the employees refer to them—run Southwest Airlines. If there’s a problem, Herb and Colleen pull together a group of employees and talk until a solution...
Herb & Rollin: The Birth of Southwest Airlines®. Initially, the pitch didn’t just sound far-fetched, it sounded like the stuff quick-fire bankruptcies were made of. Then again, long faces and even longer odds rarely dissuaded the visionary, Rollin King.
Jan 8, 2019 · Herb Kelleher, the larger-than-life cofounder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, died last week, and with him went a true business original. To him, Southwest Airlines was never just a...
Jan 3, 2019 · In 1967, Herb and client Rollin King incorporated Air Southwest, Inc., with the idea of offering low-fare, intra-Texas airline service. After a name change and many legal battles valiantly fought and won by Herb, Southwest Airlines took to the skies on June 18, 1971—a date that would change each of our lives forever.
