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Raymond was born in Newark, New Jersey, on June 19, 1917, and graduated from Montclair State Teachers’ College in 1942. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and then went on to receive an MBA from HBS in 1947 and a doctorate from the Harvard School of Education...
Sources: Associated Press; USA Today; New York Times (2); Newark Star-Ledger...
Though People says that it has raised the percentage of flights that leave and arrive on time from 40% to 65% in the past year, some passengers doubt that figure. On Christmas Eve at Newark, a group of impatient travelers waited nearly three hours to board Flight 197 to Greensboro. At one point, a young man in blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap shouted, "I've taken a poll, and everybody here is pissed off at People Express." When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias. One couple...
Burr's pulpit these days is an office at Newark Airport's North Terminal. On one side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...quit Texas International in January 1980 to start his own airline. "He's absolutely fearless," a member of People's board of directors observes. "He takes business risks that are unbelievable." As he assembled People Express in Newark, the new boss used Army-style screening tests to make sure job applicants had the same daring spirit that he did. By November 1980 Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash...