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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.
In 1980, Southwest expanded north to Tulsa and Oklahoma City and west to Albuquerque; in 1982, north to Kansas City and west to Phoenix, Las Vegas and California. Flights to Denver started in 1983 (and ended in 1986), to Little Rock 1984, to St Louis and Chicago–Midway in 1985, to Nashville in 1986 and to Detroit Metro and Birmingham in 1987.
Herb Kelleher MD-82 at New Orleans February 1984 Muse Air was a domestic U.S. airline founded in 1980 by Michael Muse , a former CFO of Southwest Airlines , and his father Lamar Muse , the founding president of Southwest.
Southwest's co-founder, who died five years ago, ... Southwest Airlines is under attack—and it’s something founder Herb Kelleher always worried about. Geoff Colvin. August 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM ...
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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 ...
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