An Introduction to the History of Air Southwest Company (3105 words, 8 pages)
Texas businessman Rollin King and lawyer Herb Kelleher founded Air Southwest in 1967 as an intrastate airline linking Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The now-defunct Baniff and Texas International sued, questioning whether the region needed another airline, but the Texas Supreme Court ruled in Southwests favor. In 1972 the company, ...
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