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At the same time, he helped to found two new airlines, WestJet and NewAir, which later became JetBlue. [9] As the CEO of JetBlue Airways, his 2002 salary was $200,000 with a bonus of $90,000. Neeleman donated his entire salary to the JetBlue Crewmember Crisis Fund, which was established for JetBlue employees who had fallen on hard times. [10]
The airline sector responded to JetBlue and Southwest's market presence by starting mini-rival carriers: Delta Air Lines started Song, and United Airlines launched another rival called Ted. Song has since been disbanded and was reabsorbed by Delta and Ted reabsorbed by United. [10] JetBlue Founder David Neeleman in 2006
David J. Barger (born 1958) is an American businessman, and one of the co-founders of JetBlue. He was the airline's chief executive officer (CEO) until his ouster in February 2015. [2] He had been part of JetBlue's founding team and was on the board of directors. [3] Barger is now an operating partner at Connor Capital SB. [4]
The low-cost airline veteran David Neeleman — who founded five budget carriers since 1984, including JetBlue — told Business Insider that some of these struggling airlines have failed to adapt ...
Thinking differently is the through-line of Neeleman's aviation career in which he's founded five different airlines. He left JetBlue after a 2007 ice storm created so much chaos that it cost him ...
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Breeze Airways, legally Breeze Aviation Group, Inc., is an American low-cost airline headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.The airline was founded by David Neeleman, who previously co-founded Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue, and Azul Linhas Aereas.
The airline was sort of founded on that principal, 'bringing humanity back to air travel', that was sort of the original slogan. And i think when [JetBlue] was founded in 2000, that was at a time ...