标题: Obituary: Herb Kelleher [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-19-2019 17:43 标题: Obituary: Herb Kelleher Note:
(a) "Born in New Jersey, he studied English and philosophy at Wesleyan University [private; in Middletown, Conn] and then law at New York University. It was his wife, Joan, whom he met on a blind date, who persuaded him to set up a law firm in Texas. Southwest Airlines was born, not on the back of a cocktail napkin, as he later liked to boast, but when one of his legal clients, Rollin King, owner of a small commuter airline, and his banker, John Parker, came to his office. Both men found travelling between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio inconvenient and expensive, and thought they could do it better."
(i) Herb Kelleher (1931 – Jan 3, 2019; born in Camden (across Delaware River from Philadelphia), NJ; official first name was Herbert ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Kelleher
Quote: "On a blind date at a basketball game, he met Joan Negley [1932- ; a Texas native -- where she was born and raised, I can not find; 'Kelleher married Joan Negley in 1955 and earned his law degree in 1956' (from the Web); remained married until Herb's death] who was a student at Connecticut College [private] in New London. The two got married, and Joan was the person who introduced him to the state of Texas, which he also fell in love with, saying 'The greatest business decision I ever made ...was the move to Texas.'
(ii) Jan Jarboe Russell, A Boy and His Airline. He walks through airports dressed like Elvis. He paints his planes to look like killer whales. He’s Southwest's Herb Kelleher, and because of him Texas' psychic landscape will never be the same. Texas Monthly, April 1989
Quote:
"Since June 18, 1971, when Southwest made its first flight from Dallas to San Antonio with ten paying customers, Texas has never been the same. By making flying around Texas easier than driving, Southwest immediately achieved the impossible—it separated Texans from their cars. * * * Kelleher is living proof that the airline has made commuter marriages possible: he lives in Dallas, his wife, Joan, lives in San Antonio, and they see each other on weekends via Southwest. Years ago Southwest issued bumper stickers that said: 'Fly Southwest. Herb Needs the Money.'
"Among the mementos lining Herb Kelleher's office * * * is a framed napkin with a triangle scribbled on it. At the top of the triangle is a dot that represents Dallas, on the left is one indicating San Antonio, to the right is Houston. This napkin is a facsimile of the napkin that businessman Rollin King drew on in 1966 when he came to Kelleher's San Antonio law office to seek legal help with his charter-airplane business. King pitched the idea of starting an airline to connect Texas' three largest cities. The reason Southwest Airlines exists is that Kelleher was a very bored San Antonio Lawyer. When King said, 'Herb, let's start an airline,' Kelleher replied, 'Rollin, you're crazy. Let's do it.'
On US, a person with Jan as the first name is a woman -- from a couple of persons I have looked up in about two decades (in US it is a rare first name that has appeared in newspapers, as reporters or subjects of reports).作者: choi 时间: 2-19-2019 17:43
(b) "The competition was not other airlines, they believed, but cars. After all, the distance between Houston and San Antonio was less than 200 miles, a three-hour journey by road. Pacific Southwest Airlines had made city-hopping efficient in California, so why would it not work in Texas? * * * What he hadn't reckoned on was the airborne competition. Within a day, Braniff, Trans Texas (later Texas International) and Continental applied for [and obtained] a restraining order [the correct legal term is an injunction; temporary restraining order (TRO) lasted ten days] stopping Southwest from taking to the skies * * * For the next four years, through the state district court in Austin, the state court of civil appeals, the Texas Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court, the big airlines pleaded for injunctions that would kill off the new business. As the airline's lawyer, and later its general counsel, he laid out its arguments and rebuttals. When, the night before one final hearing, an anxious chief executive suggested that a sheriff might show up at the last minute and stop Southwest's first plane from taking off, Mr Kelleher gave him strict instructions: 'You roll right over the son of a bitch and leave our tyre tracks on his uniform if you have to.' "
(i) Pacific Southwest Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines
(1949 - 1988 (acquired by US Air]; based in San Diego)
Quote: "It was the first large discount airline in the United States. * * * The airline initially operated as an intrastate airline wholly within the state of California. This strategy which avoided the steep costs from federal regulation would later serve as the model for Southwest Airlines, doing in Texas what PSA had done in California. Following the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, PSA expanded to other destinations in other western states in the US, and also eventually operated international service to several destinations in Mexico." (citation omitted).
(ii) Braniff (operations 183901982; founded by Paul Revere Braniff) Wikipedia.
(iii) Texas Aeronautics Commission v Braniff Airways. Inc, 454 S.W.2d 199 (Tex 1970), certiorari denied 400 US 943 (1970). https://scholar.google.com/schol ... amp;as_sdt=40000006
first paragraph (about procedural history of the case): "The Texas Aeronautics Commission on February 20, 1968, approved the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Air Southwest Co to provide intrastate air service between Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston and San Antonio. Braniff Airways, Inc, Continental Airlines, Inc, and Trans-Texas Airways, Inc initiated this action in the Travis County District Court to stop issuance of the certificate by the Commission. Air Southwest intervened on the side of the Commission. Following a seven weeks trial, that court sustained all of the contentions of Braniff et al, set aside the order of the Commission and enjoined it from issuing a certificate to Air Southwest. The court of civil appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court. 439 S.W.2d 699. The Texas Aeronautics Commission and Air Southwest Co are petitioners here.
paragraph 3: "In all matters of flying safety, such as the air worthiness of the aircraft and the skill of its operators, Air Southwest would be regulated by the Federal Aviation Agency. All Air Southwest aircraft and pilots would have federal certificates. However, by flying only in intrastate commerce and by not interlining with any CAB certificated carrier, making no connection for passengers or baggage, Air Southwest will not require a certificate from the federal agency in charge of economic regulations, the Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]. Congress has not pre-empted the field of the economic regulation of air carriers, and the states have the power to act so long as there is no conflict with federal law. 49 USC [United States Code, the formal name of federal law] § 1301(3) and (10), and § 1371. A copy of the Air Southwest application was served upon the CAB, as required by the rules of the Texas Aeronautics Commission, but the CAB has taken no part in the matter." (citations omitted).
last paragraph: "Since the record reasonably supports the order of the Texas Aeronautics Commission of February 20, 1968, it is entitled to be given full effect. The judgments of the trial court and court of civil appeals are reversed; judgment is here rendered denying the injunction and all relief sought by respondents.
(A) The legal term certiorari denied" means United States Supreme Court declined to issue writ of certiorari to review the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari
(B) The county seat of Travis County is Austin, capital of Texas and where the Commission was/is located. San Antonio is 65 air-mile southwest of Austin.
(C) "by flying only in intrastate commerce and by not interlining with any CAB certificated carrier"
As a rule of thumb, Constitution empowers Congress to regulate INTERSTATE commerce (across state lines).
interline : "[vt] to write or insert (words, phrases, etc) between the lines of writing or print"
[vt or vi] to transfer (freight) from one carrier to another in the course of shipment"
[adj] involving or indicating a transfer of passengers or freight from one carrier to another during travel or shipment <interline flights>" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/interline
(D) federal preemption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption
(E) "with headquarters in Dallas. Southwest began scheduled passenger service on June 18, 1971 on two routes: between Dallas Love Field and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and between Dallas Love Field and San Antonio with three Boeing 737-200s." en.wikipedia.org for "History of Southwest Airlines."
作者: choi 时间: 2-19-2019 17:44
(c) "Kevin and Jackie Freiberg, two academics who studied Southwest and went on to write the bestselling 'Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success' * * * When one airline ran an ad claiming that Southwest was a cheap carrier, he had himself filmed with a [paper] bag over his head, saying the airline was prepared to offer the same [bag] to any mortified passenger. * * * When a rival airline complained that Southwest pinched its slogan and began advertising itself as 'Just Plane [homonym of 'plain'] Smart,' he suggested the two chairmen settle the matter over three rounds of arm-wrestling instead of using lawyers. * * * he was always ready to tell stories about his airline. How it hired for attitude; skills, you could always teach. * * * Fortune dubbed him the 'high priest of ha ha.' That every-day's-a-holiday atmosphere * * * hid some hard-headed business decisions. * * * It [Southwest] served no meals; just peanuts [that is what the title was about: Nuts!]. Without Mr Kelleher, there would have been no Michael O'Leary and Ryanair or Stelios Haji-Ioannou rolling up his sleeves at EasyJet [1995- ; based in London]. * * * It is hard to imagine today’s airline workers taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement praising their chairman. On Bosses' Day in 1994, Southwest's employees did just that"
(i) David Koenig, Herb Kelleher, Co-Founder of Southwest Airlines, Dies at 87. Associated Press, Jan 4, 2019 https://www.usnews.com/news/busi ... airlines-dies-at-87
("As Southwest added service to more cities, executives of other airlines — and some of their passengers — dismissed Southwest as a cattle-car operation for cheap travelers. Kelleher answered with a TV commercial in which he wore a paper bag over his head and promised to give the bag to any customer who was too embarrassed to be seen flying on his discount airline")
(ii) pinch (vt): "STEAL" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pinch
(iii) Kenneth Labich and Ani Hadjian, Is Herb Kelleher America's Best CEO? Fortune, May 2, 1994 https://money.cnn.com/magazines/ ... /02/79246/index.htm
("Kelleher -- Herb to even his most fleeting acquaintances -- is not just the current darling of US aviation. He is also the airline industry's jokemeister, the High Priest of Ha-Ha, a man who has appeared in public dressed as Elvis and the Easter Bunny, who has carved an antic public persona out of his affection for cigarettes, bourbon, and bawdy stories. * * * [talking about Herb:] A lean man just a shade over six feet, with a weathered face and thinning white hair")
(iv) hardheaded (adj): "concerned with or involving practical considerations <some hardheaded advice> <a hardheaded observer of winds and tides>"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardheaded
(v) Stelios Haji-Ioannou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelios_Haji-Ioannou
(1967- ; a British cypriot born in Athens)