Airline Industry: A History of Southwest Airlines
In 1967 Southwest Airlines was a vision by and investment advisor Rollin Kind and his lawyer Herb Kelleher, they wanted to start a different kind of airline. Rollin King already had a small charter that ran between the smaller Texas cities. This new airline at first was to fly between the three largest cities in Texas, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The company was first names Air Southwest Company, it later received its name of Southwest Airlines. The next year in 1968 the Texas Aeronautical Commission approved their planned
to fly between the three major cities. In the next couple of years the company went off to a flying start by the next couple of years it had acquired four planes and employed about 200 people. In the first year of operation the company lost over $3.7 million dollars. It wasn't until the next year and a half that it was able to turn a profit and ever since then has been doing tremendous.
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