David Neeleman Quotes

We're the No. 1 airline at Kennedy, and we're going to defend Kennedy. We don't believe Delta is doing well here.

People in New York and Boston want nonstop service to Austin, but it's been too difficult and expensive. We think it's too great a city to keep under wraps any longer.

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It would be nice to have hedges like Southwest. But frankly, we don't. So we need to see what we can do to get fares up a little bit.

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There are a lot of people interested in our network. We could have something by the end of 2006.

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I think we can do better than that as we go forward.

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Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

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Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

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We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

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