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Herbert David Kelleher (March 12, 1931 – January 3, 2019) was an American billionaire airline businessman and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later CEO , and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines until his death in 2019.
Southwest Airlines began with the March 15, 1967, incorporation of Air Southwest Co. in San Antonio by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher as a Texas intrastate airline. The idea was King's, with Kelleher as his lawyer. [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
Kelleher was "Grand Master Yoda of low fares airlines," the chief executive of Europe's largest low-cost carrier Ryanair said in a Twitter post on Friday. Pioneering Southwest Airlines co-founder ...
Herb Kelleher, the founder of Southwest Airlines, died at the age of 87 on Thursday morning, the company announced in a statement on its blog.
Now customers, employees, alumni, competitors, shareholders, and admirers are all asking the same question: What would Herb do? Herb Kelleher, who died five years ago, was the Southwest co-founder ...
King's involvement with Southwest Airlines dates from 15 March 1967, when he and Herb Kelleher incorporated the Air Southwest Company in Texas, with intention of being an intrastate airline, taking inspiration from Pacific Southwest Airlines, a successful intrastate carrier in California. Such airlines had more flexibility within the then ...
Southwest Airlines cofounder Herb Kelleher died on Thursday at the age of 87, the Dallas-based airline confirmed on this week.