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Robert Forman Six (June 25, 1907 – October 6, 1986) was an American businessman who was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1936 to 1980.
Oct 4, 2020 · Robert F. Six was truly a pioneer when it came to commercial aviation in the United States. He took the helm at Continental Airlines in the middle of the 1930s and served as its head for over four decades. The legendary businessman retired in the early 1980s and passed away in 1986 at the age of 79.
Oct 7, 1986 · Robert F. Six, the founder of Continental Airlines and a pioneer in commercial aviation who came of age in an era of open cockpits, died in his sleep yesterday at his home in...
Oct 7, 1986 · Robert F. Six, the brash, tough-talking and hard-driving aviation pioneer who built a tiny “puddle-jumper” air carrier with one daily round trip into Continental Airlines, died Monday of ...
Robert Forman Six was an American businessman who was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1936 to 1980. Beginning his career in the early days of commercial aviation in the United States, his time as Continental Airlines CEO saw it become one of the world's largest and most profitable legacy airlines.
Robert Foreman Six, founder of Continental Airlines, was one of the few men to manage his own airline company from the birth of commercial aviation into the jet age.
Robert Forman Six Formed the Valley Flying Service in 1929 after earning his pilot’s license. Invested in the Southwest division of Varney Speed Lines in 1936, later moving the headquarters to Denver, Colorado, and renaming it Continental Airlines.
…came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938–82), who gave the airline the name Continental and, in the following decades, transformed the shoestring operation into one of the major American transportation companies, headquartered first in Denver and then (from 1963) in Los Angeles, California.
Industry: Transportation. Era: 1930. Six transformed Continental Airlines from a one-route “puddle-jumper” into one of the world’s major airlines. He is credited with dramatically expanding air travel by being one of the first executives to introduce low and discounted airfares.
Jan 1, 1974 · The entertaining biography of one of the last of aviation's rugged individualists. Highly readable and packed with anecdotes, MAVERICK tells the tale of a self-educated flying enthusiast -- and ex-sailor, ex-truck driver, ex-pilot - who built a tiny shoe-string airline into an empire.
- Robert J Serling
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