Personal
Neeleman lives with his wife Vicki in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States. They are the parents of nine children. In 2000, he disclosed to CNN that he has adult attention-deficit disorder.
He is the 2005 recipient of the Tony Jannus Award for outstanding leadership in the commercial aviation industry.
He speaks fluent Portuguese and holds both U.S. and Brazilian citizenship.
In the early years of JetBlue, founder David Neeleman said he always sat in the last row (row 27) of each Airbus A320 aircraft when flying on his company's airplanes, to demonstrate that pleasing the customer is more important than pleasing the CEO (at the time, seats in the 27th row – since removed from JetBlue's A320 airplanes – did not recline).
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