Southwest vs American - The Cult of Herb | 5

Business Wars

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History, David Brown, Business, Management

4.6 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves Herb Kelleher—even FAA regulators. The onetime corporate counsel-turned-CEO is coming into his own at the helm of Southwest. But his latest challenge is coming up with a way to skirt the FAA’s pesky “slot” system, designed to limit air traffic by rationing takeoffs and landings. Kelleher has a business to run. So he embarks on a crazy plan to snag a few extra slots for Southwest. It may not work, but one thing’s certain: it will be a whole lot of fun.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:06.0	It's the morning of June 11, 1981.
0:15.3	16 polished aluminum red, white and blue jets, shimmer in the Texas sun, as they fly in
0:24.3	a line above Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
0:28.1	The squadron descends one by one.
0:30.8	American 5747 maintain 170 knots.
0:35.1	Maintaining 170 knots.
0:37.3	American 5747.
0:39.3	American 5986 runway 18 left, clear land.
0:43.4	Clear to land.
0:44.4	American 598618 left, good morning.
0:48.7	This is an unprecedented invasion.
0:51.2	No airline has ever sent this many planes from this many different locations to one airport
0:57.4	in such quick succession.
1:00.1	Attention in the concourse.
1:01.3	All passengers traveling on American flight 12 to New York, La Cuardia.
1:05.3	Your flight is ready for boarding at Gate 2.
1:08.7	Passengers will get off the planes and be back in the air in just a couple of hours,
1:12.5	headed for new destinations.
1:15.6	The future of American Airlines has just arrived in Dallas.
1:21.0	It's a future some at American didn't believe could happen.
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