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One jet full of passengers sat on the tarmac for eight hours. The debacle ultimately cost the airline $30 million. Even before the storm had passed, JetBlue founder and CEO David Neeleman was...
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Dec 7, 2023 · Neeleman has successfully launched an airline five different times. Additionally, he owned an astonishing 45% share of Portuguese flag carrier TAP Air Portugal. What the industry's most successful leaders have managed to do just once, Neeleman does on a routine basis.
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He wasn’t the first Neeleman to act like this, nor the last. The family tree is full of stories of innovation, overachieving and never slowing down. David’s younger brother Stephen, for example, built from scratch Draper-based HealthEquity, the largest health care savings plan in the nation; his father, Gary, rose from cub reporter to the top echel...
David Neeleman’s Hawaii condo rental package enterprise was a roaring success — until it wasn’t. All was going great until Hawaiian Express, the airline David partnered with to provide transportation between L.A. and Honolulu, went out of business without warning and filed for bankruptcy. David’s company was doing $6 million annually, but it was ca...
It was during this interlude that Neeleman learned something important about himself that went a long way in explaining his frenetic behavior. David’s parents had taken his youngest brother to a doctor to see why the teenager was having trouble concentrating in school. The diagnosis: Mark had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a condition th...
When the noncompete period was up in 1998, David sold Open Skies to Hewlett Packard, left the running of WestJet to his partners, and got to work building the airline he’d had five years to envision — his next magnum opus: JetBlue. No one had seen anything quite like it: a discount airline with leather upholstery, TVs in every seat, satellite radio...
Which brings us to the present. These days Neeleman is back home in Utah. He continues to oversee Azul (he made sure to write into the company bylaws that he cannot be fired), but not on an everyday basis. He bought the ski-in-ski-out house in Deer Valley five years ago so the family had a place to gather for vacations and a year ago made that his ...
Jan 27, 2020 · David Neeleman's new US airline, Breeze, is set to launch in 2020, focusing on secondary markets and potentially using Embraer jets from Azul.
Oct 1, 2019 · David Neeleman, who since founding JetBlue has been the co-owner of TAP Air Portugal and founded Brazilian carrier, Azul, claims he’s on track to launch a new U.S. low-cost carrier nicknamed...
Feb 7, 2020 · Breeze Airways, which has applied for an airline operating certificate with the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, is actually founder David Neeleman’s fifth...
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Feb 9, 2022 · PhocusWire, a sister publication of Travel Weekly, interviewed airline industry veteran David Neeleman, who launched Breeze Airways in May 2021, making it his fifth commercial airline...
