David Neeleman interview

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This link will take you to a long interview with David Neeleman, JetBlue, WestJet, Southwest, MorrisAir.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...BUGVS8LL121.DTL

He has some interesting points:

1. Are legacy airlines dead?

I don't think it's dead. I think that there will be a certain shakeout in the industry.

2. On the Southwest 'model':

we thought they may be a little too much of a prisoner to their success.

3. On unions:

We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors.

4. Salaries:

You continue to bring people into the company and income-average those salaries.

5. Fast growth:

And the second thing is that because you have too many planes or too many stores open or whatever, you basically don't have any more business.

Have a read.