Morris Air

also referred to as: morris air charters

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 4, 2019 by David Neeleman · said 14 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (8), David Neeleman (6)

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Feb 4, 2019
Assertion Supported
Neeleman used idle Hawaiian Airlines planes for $69 Salt Lake-to-LA flights
“I put flights onto Los Angeles for 69 dollars using this old airplane, flying into the old West Imperial Terminal.”
David Neeleman Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 20:37 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Feb 4, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Neeleman: Morris Air Charters launched Hawaii packages for $399 on chartered DC-8s
“You'd spend, you know, basically seven days, six nights in Hawaii, and then fly direct, and the whole package was three 99, because we were buying the charter flight, and so we started this company called Morris Air Charters, and that was kind of the hallmark …”
David Neeleman Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 19:35 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Feb 4, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Raz: Southwest acquired Morris Air for $130M in 1993
“Southwest, in 1993, buys the company for a hundred and thirty million dollars.”
Guy Raz Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 25:39 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Feb 4, 2019
Insight
Neeleman: Aircraft leasing enables low-capital airline bootstrapping via maintenance reserves
“You aren't buying the airplanes. You're just, you know, agreeing to pay them like a monthly rent payment on the airplanes with leasing. And then they take a certain amount per hour in reserves for maintenance. And then when the planes go in for maintenance, th…”
David Neeleman Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 23:32 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Feb 4, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neeleman: Finished Morris Air's two-year Southwest integration in six months
“They asked me to take two years to integrate Morris into Southwest, and within six months, I had it all done.”
David Neeleman Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 30:38 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Feb 4, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Southwest claims Smithsonian credit for e-tickets, but Morris Air invented them
“They were, and have credit today in the Smithsonian as being the first Ticketless airline, but it was really our system that did it.”
David Neeleman Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 27:38 JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
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