His client, Rollin King, who had owned a small air service in San Antonio, tried to persuade Kelleher to help him with his dream to find a cheaper and more convenient way of travel to a triangle of cities like, Houston, San Antonio, as well as Dallas. Kelleher agreed, the company’s first paperwork was then sketched on a cocktail napkin. He filed Southwest’s incorporation documents during March of 1967 and the required documents to fly the following November. Kelleher could not just jump into the entrepreneurial business without any qualifying skills, he had great leadership, a kind that differed him from the competition, he did not just let the head executives make all the decisions, each employee was involved in decision processes. He used this skill along with determination, and integrity to build the business. Southwest Airlines were off to a rocky start, the monopolizing airlines did not like the cheaper airline. Kelleher’s airline goal was to eliminate unnecessary services and wanted to make the airlines cheaper or maintain the lowest fares he utilized secondary airports which are smaller airports. The competition, large airlines like Branniff, came back with lawsuits and restraining orders against Southwest. Southwest did not go down without a fight, when Southwest had been in the running for only five months, the two-tier fare system
His client, Rollin King, who had owned a small air service in San Antonio, tried to persuade Kelleher to help him with his dream to find a cheaper and more convenient way of travel to a triangle of cities like, Houston, San Antonio, as well as Dallas. Kelleher agreed, the company’s first paperwork was then sketched on a cocktail napkin. He filed Southwest’s incorporation documents during March of 1967 and the required documents to fly the following November. Kelleher could not just jump into the entrepreneurial business without any qualifying skills, he had great leadership, a kind that differed him from the competition, he did not just let the head executives make all the decisions, each employee was involved in decision processes. He used this skill along with determination, and integrity to build the business. Southwest Airlines were off to a rocky start, the monopolizing airlines did not like the cheaper airline. Kelleher’s airline goal was to eliminate unnecessary services and wanted to make the airlines cheaper or maintain the lowest fares he utilized secondary airports which are smaller airports. The competition, large airlines like Branniff, came back with lawsuits and restraining orders against Southwest. Southwest did not go down without a fight, when Southwest had been in the running for only five months, the two-tier fare system