A CEO is not a time machine. 2012 will still be very different from 1995.
A very good point.
I doubt that Herb would have done things very differently than Gary Kelly has done.
An enormous leap from the lead-in observation, IMO. We do know that GK sought and received HK's blessing for the AirTran acquisition, but there almost certainly would have been a large number of significantly different decisions over the years. I'm not an expert on the topic but I have the impression HK was much more aggressive than GK. SWA is facing numerous serious issues and I think an SWA led by (a younger than now) HK would be attacking them, whereas GK is awfully passive (
we'll just sit tight until ROI hits 15%).