David Neeleman
David Neeleman
David G. Neelemanis a Brazilian-American entrepreneur who has founded four commercial airlines, Morris Air, Westjet, JetBlue Airways and Azul Brazilian Airlines. He is also the co-owner of TAP Portugal, along with Humberto Pedrosa...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth16 October 1959
CountryBrazil
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We are very disappointed in our performance this quarter as we continued to feel the effects of record-high fuel prices and a tough revenue environment, compounded by the impact of Hurricane Wilma and the residual effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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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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We are going to cut our cost and figure out how our average fares can go up a bit.
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We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
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I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money.
I also really like getting to know our crew members better.
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Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
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Without a doubt, it's been the events of September 11th and their aftermath. There's never been a more critical time in the airline business.
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Richmond will play an important part of that. If we're successful in Richmond, we're going to add more flights and more cities.
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We're the No. 1 airline at Kennedy, and we're going to defend Kennedy. We don't believe Delta is doing well here.
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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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When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.
You can't charge for anything in Brazil.
There's just things that are against the law.