airlines
also referred to as: airline
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2019 by Herb Kelleher · across every show →
Everything said about airlines, oldest first
Jan 4, 2019 positive
Kelleher: Having Zero Airline Experience Qualified Him to Build Southwest
“Well, I knew nothing about airlines, which I think made me eminently qualified to start one, because what we tried to do at Southwest was get away from the traditional way that airlines had done business. So I started with the tabula rasa blank slate, And I th…”
Feb 4, 2019 negative
Neeleman: 1990s airlines lacked relational databases and real-time reservation data
“Airlines had these big mainframe computer systems they were using at the time, and everything was done on a flat file. So there was no relational databases. The actual, the database was actually the ticket. So if you lost your ticket, and, you know, it became …”
Jun 14, 2021
Barton: Microsoft formed a travel agency to access airline reservation systems
“We knew that if we started a travel agency, that from an equal access perspective, we ought to be able to plug into these electron, these big mainframe based reservation systems that ran the industry and act like a travel agent. And if we got discriminated aga…”