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David Neeleman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Always great to talk to you, Guy.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Yeah, we have some others, but, yeah, primarily A220s.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Well, I always learn.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

I learn from everything that I've ever done before.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

I learned from my Southwest experience that if you bought brand new airplanes, it was actually cheaper than if you got old airplanes.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And I did that at JetBlue.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And then I learned also at Southwest that you need to treat your people awesome.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So I did that at JetBlue.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And then, as you said, I was somewhat forced out of JetBlue.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

They wanted me just to be the chairman.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

I said, no way.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So I went back to the country of my birth and founded Azul.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Well, he was actually a journalist, but he had served his mission there, fell in love with the country and came back to work, as so many do when they serve their missions.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So it was amazing.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Brazil was kind of like the US airline business when it was in the 1960s.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So I really learned the value of being the exclusive person in a market, being a monopoly market.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Even till today, Azul...

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

About 85% of their markets, they have no nonstop competition.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So I learned that big lesson.

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