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2003:

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   A conversation with CEO of Jet blue David Neeleman

   with David Neeleman on Jul 23, 2003

   Duration

   22 min

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David Neeleman is the founder and CEO of JetBlue Airways.

Neeleman was co-founder (with June Morris) of charter airline Morris Air, a low-fare airline. From 1984 to 1988, he was an Executive Vice President of Morris Air. From 1988 to 1994, he was the President of Morris Air Corporation. Morris Air was then acquired by Southwest Airlines for $130 million in 1993. For a brief period, he worked on the Executive Planning Committee at Southwest.

After leaving Southwest, he became the Chief Executive Officer of Open Skies, a touch screen airline reservation and check-in systems company acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1999. At the same time, he helped with another upstart airline, Westjet.

Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman