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Robert Jordan is an American business executive who took on the role of chief executive officer (CEO) at Southwest Airlines on February 1, 2022. [ 1 ] In June 2021, it was announced that Jordan would succeed Gary C. Kelly as the sixth CEO of the company in February 2022. [ 2 ]
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
Southwest Airlines: Robert E. Jordan: President and CEO [98] 2022 Replaced former CEO Gary C. Kelly; joined Southwest in 1988 [99] 2023-02-21 Sonic Corporation: J. Clifford Hudson: Chairman, CEO and president [100] 1995 Also a trustee for the Ford Foundation: 2017-11-12 Starbucks: Brian Niccol: Chairman and CEO [101] 2024
Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan hit choppy weather and a storm named Elliott. (Bob Jordan:Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg-Getty Images, Southwest airplane:Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto-Getty Images ...
Kelly was named chairman of the board of directors of Southwest Airlines on May 21, 2008, replacing co-founder Herb Kelleher. [5] Gary Kelly also became president of Southwest Airlines the same year, replacing Colleen Barrett when her contract expired on July 15, 2008. [6] Gary Kelly and Bob Fornaro during AirTran acquisition
Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success is a 1996 non-fiction book about the American low-cost airline Southwest Airlines by Kevin and Jacquelyn Freiburg, published by Bard Press.
Robert Jordan becomes CEO of Southwest Airlines early next year and his 33 years at the airline will help him navigate recent setbacks in flight operations and employee relations.
Sales rise for all airlines in the market. For the communities affected, Southwest's entry and the corresponding drop in air fares stimulated business and increased demand for air transportation. This, in turn, increased the revenues of all airlines offering transportation to the community, and sometimes resulted in a net profit increase.