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Remembering Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher, the Wild Turkey loving, chain smoking airline maverick


Herb Kelleher was due to pick up Bill Franke from a tiny airport in Saratoga, Wyoming.

The duo was headed to an annual event of airline industry honchos, their first year as roommates, 

but he rmeembers hima s smar brilliant;a competitors;

ditto doug 

Herb Kelleher loved to talk. he was funny xx 

‘s zany side is legendary.

The co-founder of Southwest Airliens, lit up cigarettes in public places with no regard to no smokign sigsnxx, xx and xx.

But what American Airlines CEO Doug Parker will remember most is his listening skills.

 

 

 

was supposed to pick up fellow airline executive Bill Franke from the tiny airport in Saratoga, Wyoming, and bring him to an annual conference of industry honchos.

But when Franke, then CEO of America West Airlines 

scheduled to pick Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher was nowhere to be found when fellow fellow airline executive Bill Franke landed at a tiny Wyoming airport for an annual gathering of airline honchos.

mutt and jeff. 

theyg o to the room; 

he called him nanny

Kelleher, who took Southwest Airlines from a startup to the USA’s busiest domestic carrier, died Thursday at age 87. 

The airline announced his death on social media.

 

“Herb was a pioneer, a maverick, and an innovator. His vision revolutionized commercial aviation and democratized the skies. Herb’s passion, zest for life, and insatiable investment in relationships made lasting and immeasurable impressions on all who knew him and will forever be the bedrock and esprit de corps of Southwest Airlines,” the airline said in a statement. “The entire Southwest Family extends our deepest sympathies to Herb’s wife, Joan, and his entire family.”

Along with co-founder Rollin King, Kelleher launched Southwest in 1971 with service from Dallas Love Field to Houston and San Antonio. Southwest currently serves 99 cities in the USA and abroad with 742 aircraft.  

 



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