Dallas’ maverick Southwest Airlines is “flush with success” under its president, chairman and chief executive Gary Kelly, the New York Times reports. Kelly, by the way, was recently named Dallas-Fort Worth’s CEO of the Year by respondents to the the SMU Cox School’s 2010 CEO Sentiment Survey and honored at a D CEO event (pictured). Not bad for a mild-mannered bean counter who had to follow in Herb Kelleher’s footsteps.
