Southwest Airlines co-founder Rollin King passes away

[Pistonpilot]

Southwest Airlines co-founder Rollin King passes away

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/...-southwest-airlines-founder-passes-away.html/

 

[brokedash]

Very sad. As I've always understood it, the plan for the Texas Triangle routing was his and was based off his study of PSA's route structure.

 

[waveflyer]

RIP-
A great man for sure and instrumental in getting SWA to sustained success

 

[St. Nic]

God rest his soul.

 

[rettofly]

R. I. P.

Notwithstanding our current president's "you didn't build that" idiocy, is it safe to say that he did build it?

 

[xjgearbtch]

R. I. P.

Notwithstanding our current president's "you didn't build that" idiocy, is it safe to say that he did build it?

Way to interject politics into a somber post. You ***********************************. Mr King was a visionary and yes he built it well. We are proud and humbled by his hard work.

 

[scoreboardII]

5 posts till it went South...

 

[rettofly]

Way to interject politics into a somber post. You ***********************************. Mr King was a visionary and yes he built it well. We are proud and humbled by his hard work.

Mr. King's passing is indeed a somber occurrence. It reminds me that entrepreneurial vision is being strangled by an overreaching government that makes his kind of vision and leadership nearly impossible.

I apologize for offending sensibilities that are primarily focused on the occasion.

 

[vetrider]

Maybe it's a little like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, both instrumental despite some tension and differing views in later years? At any rate, RIP Mr. King.

 

[Cobraair75drvr]

Will the love be there for John Ornstein or Brian Bedford when they pass? They've done the same thing in a way. Taken advantage of a glut of pilot labor to get them to work more for less than their peers at then other airlines.