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Dieuwer Jan 2, 2012 12:34 pm

Neeleman biopic
 
Just saw a very nice biopic on Bloomberg TV about David Neeleman. Seems he is a likeable person. I didn't know he founded Morris Air and briefly worked for Southwest, as well as Westjet.
Pretty amazing he started three airlines that all became very successful. Almost like an impossible feat considering the economics of aviation.

jetBlueNYFL Jan 6, 2012 10:18 pm

Great piece. 4 airlines...Azul in Brazil.

jaguar Jan 8, 2012 4:27 pm

Do you know where I can find the video of Neeleman?

jetBlueNYFL Jan 9, 2012 9:05 pm


Originally Posted by jaguar (Post 17774367)
Do you know where I can find the video of Neeleman?

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/72535922/

zagorsky Jan 9, 2012 9:17 pm

Neeleman
 
I would go as far as to say he is great. I am reading a book and there is short story about him. Apparently when Morris Air was acquired, he worked with Southwest for a bit and for some reasons he was fired by the Head of Human Resources. A few years later, Me Neeleman hired for B6 the same person who let him go.
I do not know if it is a legend, but he did not receive any compensation at B6, he donated to the EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND.

N830MH Jan 10, 2012 8:55 pm


Originally Posted by jetBlueNYFL (Post 17782867)

Thanks for sharing the video and I can listening him on video and he have a entire family and he work for another airliens. He went to Hawaii for a vacation trip.


Originally Posted by zagorsky (Post 17782922)
I would go as far as to say he is great. I am reading a book and there is short story about him. Apparently when Morris Air was acquired, he worked with Southwest for a bit and for some reasons he was fired by the Head of Human Resources. A few years later, Me Neeleman hired for B6 the same person who let him go.
I do not know if it is a legend, but he did not receive any compensation at B6, he donated to the EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND.

Wow...Very interesting story. I am never heard of it. Why David got fired from WN? What is reason why that he doesn't do it too well at all. Remember David was fired from JetBlue back in late-2007.

zagorsky Jan 12, 2012 6:26 am

Neeleman
 
It does not say, just he was complaining too much. Still, a great lesson. The original title is GOOD BOSS, BAD BOSS. I am reading he italian version and it is full of great stories and morals. I hope he does well in Brazil.

adamj023 Jan 14, 2012 7:50 pm


Originally Posted by dieuwer2 (Post 17732266)
Just saw a very nice biopic on Bloomberg TV about David Neeleman. Seems he is a likeable person. I didn't know he founded Morris Air and briefly worked for Southwest, as well as Westjet.
Pretty amazing he started three airlines that all became very successful. Almost like an impossible feat considering the economics of aviation.

Never met but saw him speak at Stanford University and perhaps in other interviews and saw multiple articles about him, and yes, have flown his airline and have even seen the Corporate HQ building. He was born in Latin America.

The business model has done quite well and I still remember when it was a new airline just off the ground. Since then it has expanded, gotten additional slots at airports and is even moving their corporate HQ over.

It was the first non legacy carrier to win accolades in its business model and to reduce costs of travel flying to the NYC market. Also had a lot of Salt Lake City, Utah roots.

After the American Airlines bankruptcy is finalized, and after Republic Airlines spins off Frontier, all the airlines should be at profitability for the most part.

So in essense, deregulation of the airline industry has officially worked out and should be at full blast with the best yet to come in the coming years.


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