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JetBlue's Founder is Starting a New US Airline With $100 Million and 60 Planes
By Gary Leff/ View From the Wing/ viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com
Dave Neeleman founded JetBlue after his non-compete from Southwest’s acquisition of Morris Air where he was CEO expired. During that non-compete period he was involved in the launch of Canada’s WestJet.
A citizen of Brazil as well as the U.S. (and also now of Cyprus), Neeleman launched Brazilian carrier Azul after being forced out at JetBlue. He’s also a partner in Star Alliance carrier TAP Air Portugal.
Last summer he registered the name for a new airline and announced some hiring but it turned out just to be a plan for chartering regional jets. He said at the time he wasn’t planning a new U.S. airline.
And maybe that was even true then, but it appears to no longer be true. The new airline is tentatively called ‘Moxy’ according to Airline Weekly which broke the story (subscription) but that has to be a temporary name, it’s the Marriott brand of hotels that debuted boldly declaring millenials don’t need desks and can have tiny rooms...."
Richard
By Gary Leff/ View From the Wing/ viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com
Dave Neeleman founded JetBlue after his non-compete from Southwest’s acquisition of Morris Air where he was CEO expired. During that non-compete period he was involved in the launch of Canada’s WestJet.
A citizen of Brazil as well as the U.S. (and also now of Cyprus), Neeleman launched Brazilian carrier Azul after being forced out at JetBlue. He’s also a partner in Star Alliance carrier TAP Air Portugal.
Last summer he registered the name for a new airline and announced some hiring but it turned out just to be a plan for chartering regional jets. He said at the time he wasn’t planning a new U.S. airline.
And maybe that was even true then, but it appears to no longer be true. The new airline is tentatively called ‘Moxy’ according to Airline Weekly which broke the story (subscription) but that has to be a temporary name, it’s the Marriott brand of hotels that debuted boldly declaring millenials don’t need desks and can have tiny rooms...."
Richard