"Basically for the last 40 years, I have worked
seven-day weeks, at least 12 hours a day. Hopefully, when we make
this transition... I'll have a few weekends off."
Source: Herb Kelleher, who after chairing
Wednesday's annual meeting of stockholders at Southwest Airlines,
will step back into an officially undefined role which will keep
him on the airline's payroll until at least 2013. Kelleher started
the airline, originally called Air Southwest, with businessman
Rollin King in 1967.