How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker

Hey everyone, so as some of you know, we've just started a new series of conversations on Facebook Live, where each week I'll be talking to founders and entrepreneurs about how they're dealing with the new normal that we're all experiencing right now. And in case you miss these conversations live, We're going to be posting an excerpt right here every Thursday in your podcast feed. And today we've got two guests. Later you'll hear from Tristan Walker, the founder of Walker and Company. But first, let's start with David Neileman, the founder of JetBlue Airways. The airline industry has taken a huge hit over these past few weeks, and it's likely air carriers won't be flying at capacity for the foreseeable future. Now, David is no longer involved with JetBlue, but he has founded two other airlines since then. One is called Azul, and it's one of the biggest air carriers in South America. So, of course, COVID 19 has had a direct impact on his business. David is confident people will fly again, and that his airline?

Will survive this crisis. You know our our business is off ninety five percent. We had nine hundred flights a day before the crisis. We're down to under fifty flights a day. Wow. Our revenue um we were doing Uh something close to ten million a day and now we're doing um you know five percent of that. So you know it it's it's uh

It's a big challenge and but w you know, one of the great things you know, when you build great companies, you have great people. Um, you know, we have about uh thirteen thousand. people who work for for Zul and So we went out to the to the group and said, Hey, you know, everybody Um, we're gonna need your help here.

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