TheGreatChecko From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 1110 posts, RR: 3 Posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 1300 times:
For those of you wondering, today was the day that Herb Kelleher successfully argued the Texas Supreme Court to overrule a Texas State District Court injunction preventing Southwest from commencing service. WN started scheduled service between DAL, HOU, and SAT shortly afterwards.
Atrude777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5613 posts, RR: 54 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 1271 times:
Tomorrow the 18th is when the first flight of WN takes off, 34 years ago.
Alex
Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go AFTER it!
Swadispatcher From United States of America, joined May 2004, 427 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 1269 times:
Boeing's throwing a party over in the Hangar this afternoon for the Employees.. should be a good time!
Maintain 2300 until Boiler, cleared for the VOR-A approach, report BATLE inbound..
TheGreatChecko From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 1110 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 1267 times:
Quoting Atrude777 (Reply 2): Tomorrow the 18th is when the first flight of WN takes off, 34 years ago.
Thx, I couldn't quite find that info. NUTS! makes it sound like it happened within the hour of the ruling!
GreatChecko
"A pilot's plane she is. She will love you if you deserve it, and try to kill you if you don't...She is the Mighty Q400"
Atrude777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5613 posts, RR: 54 Reply 5, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 1256 times:
Quoting TheGreatChecko (Reply 4): Thx, I couldn't quite find that info. NUTS! makes it sound like it happened within the hour of the ruling!
Straight from "NUTS!"
"i told lamar, you roll right over the son of bitch and leave our tire tracks on his uniform if you have to." the very next day, june 18th, 1971,Southwest Airlines was finally off the ground."
Alex
Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go AFTER it!
N471WN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1182 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1194 times:
And then soon after the equivalent of Nevill Chamberlain ("Peace in our Time" after he visited with Hitler in Berlin) the laughing stock in every business case study......namely one Bob Crandall the then CEO of American Airlines who pronounced: "They will not be around in 6 months as no one is going to fly on an airline with just 3 planes with no food and no assigned seats".......poor Bob Crandall will live in airline infamy as the one who could have killed the baby in the cradle but thought the baby would not grow up......like everything in business it was his arrogance that took him down. Now American has to be embarrassed each and every day as they know they cannot compete with WN.
Milemaster From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1009 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1158 times:
Quoting Dbba (Reply 6): Bob Crandall will live in airline infamy as the one who could have killed the baby in the cradle but thought the baby would not grow up......like everything in business it was his arrogance that took him down.
The only time Crandall was ever "taken down" was during the BI price fixing incident. I'd hardly consider Southwest the reason why AA has lost so much in the past 4 years.
N471WN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1182 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1155 times:
Milemaster:
You missed my point. Bob Crandall was "taken down" much later in the historical perspective as WN was born and grew on his watch. And of course his pronouncements about why WN would not make it are in every airline case study. His "place" in airline history if you will is now set as his lack of action and his arrogance have denied him any credibility in the airline business world. So by "take down" I mean from what he might have achieved if he had been smart. Sorry if the words conveyed another meaning.
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