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Old 4th Jan 2019, 13:37
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Asturias56
 
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Originally Posted by alfaman
Sorry, off topic a touch, I'm pretty sure MOL likes people to think he copied Southwest - it actually more closely resembled Valujet: history somehow got revised...
MOL went to the USA in 1991 before ValueJet was formed in 1993 - he definitely based the model on SW -

Unfortunately, he wasn't half as nice the guy that Herb was - but one thing he did take up - SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY - which was a basic principle at SW and not perhaps at VJ
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