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Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (A) 409-024 Neeleman had a great deal of anxiety about school due to his struggles with the basics of reading and writing. Even today, he cannot recall a single book that he read during high school.
Mar 26, 2013 · Exhibit K. Executive Biographies David Neeleman, Chief Executive Officer and Director David Neeleman is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors. He has served in both capacities since August 1998. Mr. Neeleman was a co-founder of WestJet and from 1996 to 1999 served as a member of WestJet's board of directors.
Still in his 30s, Neeleman moved on to co-found WestJet, a Canadian regional airline, and after making it profitable, he helped develop Open Skies, an electronic ticketing system later acquired by Hewlett Packard. 1 In 1998, Neeleman gathered a team of investors and seasoned airline industry executives and founded “New Air Corporation.”
WestJet reported an operating profit of C$300m and a net profit before special items of C$181.3m for 2007, accounting for 14% and 8.4% of revenues. For the fourth quarter, the airline posted operating and ex–item net profits of C$73.4m and C$41.7m, respectively, on revenues of C$553.4m. The 13.3% fourth–quarter operating margin was the ...
Skies to Hewlett-Packard in 1999. Also during this period, Neeleman acted as a consultant to WestJet Airlines, the successful Canadian low-fare start-up airline. In 1999, after the conclusion of his five-year non-compete agreement with Southwest Airlines, Neeleman decided the time was right to bring his successful airline formula-
May 1, 2004 · Neeleman's career in the airline industry began in 1984 when he co-founded a low-fare carrier called Morris Air with June Morris, the owner of Salt Lake City-based travel agency Morris Travel.
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May 5, 2004 · WestJet got off the ground in 1996, with three aircraft and 220 employees serving just five western Canadian cities. Today, the company is soaring to new heights, with more than 6 million 'guests'; traveling on 44 planes, and WestJet's over 3,700 people providing service to 26 destinations.
