David Neeleman

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David Neeleman (2006)

David G. Neeleman (born October 16, 1959 in São Paulo ) is an American - Brazilian - Cypriot businessman. Since 2008 he has been the founder and CEO of what is now the third largest airline in Brazil, Azul . In 1996 he co-founded Westjet Airlines (now Canada's second largest airline) and in 1998 he founded JetBlue (now the fifth largest airline in the United States). In 2015 he participated in TAP Air Portugal and in 2017 in Aigle Azur .

Life

Born in São Paulo, Neeleman lived in Brazil until the age of five (his father Gary was a Brazil correspondent for United Press International ) before returning to Salt Lake City with his parents of American- Dutch descent . In the United States, Neeleman attended Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights ( Utah ) and studied at the University of Utah for three years before dropping out. At 19, he went briefly back to Brazil as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints of Mormons in Rio de Janeiro to work.

The well-known enterprising Neeleman was already selling tour packages to his classmates to Hawaii as a student and was soon invited to work for the travel agency Morris Travel in Salt Lake City. He began aircraft to lease and co-founded the former Morris Air , by Southwest Airlines was bought in the year 1993rd Morris Air was the first airline to start with the revolutionary idea of eliminating the paper tickets commonly used at the time for air travel. In 1999 he started a low-cost airline with New Air , later renamed JetBlue Airways , which he left in 2007. Beginning in 2000, David Neeleman helped launch Live TV, the first company to provide in-flight television programming. He was also directly involved as managing director of OpenSkies , an electronic reservation and ticketing system that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1999.

Neeleman's specialty is customer service. One quote says:

“Take care of your employees first; they care about their customers; and your customers take care of the shareholders. "

- David Neeleman

Today Neeleman commutes between New Canaan (Connecticut) , where his wife Vicki lives with their nine children, and the Azul headquarters near São Paulo.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Neeleman joins Aigle Azur , accessed on November 17, 2017
  2. ↑ Neeleman names his Brazilian airline “Azul” , airliners.de from May 22, 2008
  3. ↑ David Neeleman - CEO of JetBlue Airlines , mormonsinbusiness.org, accessed March 13, 2015
  4. ↑ Milken Institute: David Neeleman, Chairman, Founder and CEO, Azul Brazilian Airlines , accessed March 12, 2015
  5. ↑ David Neeleman - CEO of JetBlue Airlines , mormonsinbusiness.org, accessed March 13, 2015
  6. ↑ About Utah: Azul won't gouge, Neeleman promises , deseretnews.com, article on Davide Neeleman

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personal data
SURNAME Neeleman, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neeleman, David G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Brazilian businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo , Brazil