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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.
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Among the mementos lining Herb Kelleher’s office—the toy cars and planes, the white shirt he wore on his first solo flight in a private plane—is a framed napkin with a triangle scribbled on it. At the top of the triangle is a dot that represents Dallas, on the left is one indicating San Antonio, to the right is Houston. This napkin is a facsimile o...
For the next few years Kelleher was made Mr. Inside at Southwest Airlines. He was the company’s lawyer, spending his time negotiating contracts with Boeing for the purchase of airplanes, writing stock offerings, and raising money. He also served as a mediator between Rollin King, who became the chief operations officer, and Lamar Muse, a flamboyant...
At Easter the head of the eleventh-largest airline in the country has been known to fly as the Easter Bunny. On St. Patrick’s Day Kelleher has flown as a leprechaun. On this day he is traveling as just his zany self. “I just love these three-hundreds,” Kelleher is saying as we make our way to the rear of the Boeing 737-300, which seats 137 customer...
In late 1978 Kelleher called a meeting of his senior officers and told them Southwest Airlines could not just settle back and rely on Texas business commuters as a cash cow. Like a jet plane, Herb Kelleher and his airline need to keep moving. “We had run our string in Texas. Our growth was stymied,” Kelleher recalls. Indeed, Southwest was too depen...
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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...
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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.
