You're a bunch of quitters.

[AtomicHero]

Come on, I know it's 7AM, but sleeping? SLEEPING IS FOR THE WEAK. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a gangster if you have to do things like sleep?

Let me tell you, back in my day? If you were a G, and you fell asleep? We took you out back, and shot you. No lie.

[mr. big]

LOLOL still waiting on that Kellher info to be finished.

[qbert]

I'm about to leave in like an hour.

Can't wait to get that vagina.

[AtomicHero]

Can't wait to get that vagina.

My mom told me to tell you that she can't see you today, and she'll call you later.

[qbert]

GODAMNIT

[mr. big]

So I'm basically done with my info searching. This is the raw notes going on note-cards. Chex it out:

History Of Southwest Airlines/Herb Kelleher
• Herb Kelleher was born on March 12, 1931 in Haddon Heights, NJ.
• His first paying job was a branch manager at the Philadelphia Bulletin making $2.50 an hour to ensure papers got delivered to his home-town.
• He received his BA with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and his Law Degree from NYU with honors as well.
• He worked until the age of 36 as a private attorney and was moderately successful.
• Before 1970, due to regulation, airlines were able to cohort and charge whatever prices they wanted for air-fare. They were basically a monopoly with different names all sharing the same financial pie evenly.
• They were regulated by the federal government who added a tax for interstate travel to get their piece of the pie.
• The big airlines enjoyed enormous profits and were able to crush any upstarts with the government’s help, who tried to get into the arena of competition. Anyone who wanted to get involved had to charge the same prices and have the same amount of capital to essentially be competitive.
• Rollin King obtained an MBA from Harvard and joined an investment counsel in 1962.
• King purchased “Wild Goose Flying Service” and was incorporated as Southwest Airlines in 1964.
• In 1967 Herb Kelleher was an attorney. Rollin King came to him with an idea for low-cost no-frills airline that served within Texas. Kelleher caught the vision and was willing to help him get Southwest off the ground. Together they started the Southwest Airlines we know today.
• Kelleher applied with the Texas Aeronautics Commission to fly only within Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio), allowing them dodge federal price regulations set by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
• The following day, other national airlines that compete in the same area (Braniff Airways, Continental Airlines, and Trans-Texas Airways) took Southwest to court for the lowball prices. The Travis County Local Court said Southwest was allowed to operate, in which Herb Kelleher argued Southwest’s case. On appeal in Austin State District Court, the judge determined that the 3 air-fields already had sufficient service and Southwest could not operate. Kelleher’s appeal was taken to the Third Court of Civil Appeals and again lost. The investors were ready to call it quits but Kelleher insisted and took the appeal to the US Supreme Court and won on December 7, 1970. Southwest Airlines was officially open for business in early 1971.
• The decision in 1970 was what many consider the beginning of the deregulation of the airline business. On October 17, 1978, the Federal Deregulation Act was passed allowing airline companies to choose their own routes and fares.
• In 1971, the Regional Airport Board and the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth took Southwest to court, trying to remove their access from the airport Dallas Love Field airport. The court dismissed the case citing that as long as it was a commercial airfield, Southwest had the right to operate.
• Braniff and Texas International Airport took Southwest to court with the Civil Aeronautics Board based on them impeding on their intrastate exclusivity agreement. Kelleher argued Southwest’s case and won. Meanwhile at the same time, the same judge who granted an injunction on Southwest’s services in the Austin State District Court had granted two restraining orders to local airports from allowing Southwest on the premises. This was taken as an emergency appeal before the Texas Supreme Court and the restraining orders were revoked and that judge was never allowed to deal with Southwest in court again. This was 2 days before Southwest’s scheduled inaugural flight.
• On June 18, 1971, Southwest’s first flight took to the air.
• Their low-fares forced the competition to lower prices to compete.
• It was a small company with less than 70 employees and not many resources. When they ran into financial trouble, Kelleher had to either sell one of their few planes or lay off employees.
• Contrary to what other companies would have done, Kelleher sold the plane and kept the employees, in exchange asking that they make their gate turn-arounds under fifteen minutes.
• The employees more than obliged and feeling truly valuable now hold one of the friendliest management/subordinate relationships in the industry.
• Kelleher’s value-system was cutting-edge, putting the employees first, the customer second, and the shareholder third.
• He was director and general counsel for the company until 1978 when he was appointed Chairman of the Board and eventually CEO in 1981.
• Southwest became a major airline in 1989 when it passed the 1 billion dollar revenue mark.
• Southwest is the United States' only major shorthaul, low-fare, high-frequency, point-to-point carrier.
• From 1997-2003, Southwest was named the best company in the airline industry by Fortune Magazine.
• Southwest is the only airline to make a net-profit every year since 1973.
• They are now the fourth largest carrier in the United States.
• His leadership approach mixed with his fun take on life has made him what many people describe as one of the best CEOs of all time.
• In January of 1998, Fortune Magazine ranked Southwest Airlines as the #1 company to work for in America.
• In 1999, Kelleher won the award of CEO of the Year.
• In June of 2001, Kelleher stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities as CEO of Southwest but still remains on the Board of Directors and is very active in big business decisions.

[DawL]

Come on, I know it's 7AM, but sleeping? SLEEPING IS FOR THE WEAK. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a gangster if you have to do things like sleep?

Let me tell you, back in my day? If you were a G, and you fell asleep? We took you out back, and shot you. No lie.

i was already at work by 7am, cuz i'm gangsta :roll:

[mr. big]

Come on, I know it's 7AM, but sleeping? SLEEPING IS FOR THE WEAK. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a gangster if you have to do things like sleep?

Let me tell you, back in my day? If you were a G, and you fell asleep? We took you out back, and shot you. No lie.

i was already at work by 7am, cuz i'm gangsta :roll:

Jesus fuck that's early. I'm still awake from waking up at 2am from a nap gone wrong (7 hours). I've got a presentation today. I will rule it.