Neeleman Ousted as JetBlue CEO

May 10th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

Back on February 19th, after JetBlue’s operational disaster, I wrote, "If Neeleman weren’t the founder, I would expect a board to oust him over this. But they won’t…"

I was wrong. The board fired JetBlue’s CEO and founder David Neeleman today, replacing him with former COO Dave Barger. Who knows why it took 3 months (and why they did it once JetBlue had improved its operations), but it goes to show, you can launch a successful airline and still get fired.

Neeleman will remain as non-executive chairman of the board.

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too bad May 10th, 2007 10:26 am :
Im sure they left him with a tiny, miniscule severance package. How is he gonna feed his family? Is there an address to which contributions can be sent?

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