Don Kendell

Donald Moreton Kendell AM (19 Janairu 1930 - 14 Oktoba 2001) shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma shugaban kamfanin Kendell Airlines, wanda, a shekarun 1990, shine babban kamfanin jirgin sama na yankin Ostiraliya.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Don Kendell ya girma a kan alkama da tumaki na iyayensa a kudu maso yammacin New South Wales, inda ya zama mai sha'awar jirgin sama. Ya tuna cewa tun yana dan shekara bakwai ya gudu ba tare da kafafu ba kusan mil a cikin paddocks cike da Saffron Thistle kawai don kallon tashiwar jirgin sama.

Ya halarci Kwalejin Geelong bayan wani lokaci a Makarantar Osborne Bush amma ya koma gidan iyayensa kusa da Lockhart, New South Wales, don taimakawa a lokacin fari a shekara ta 1946.  Amma kwari mai tashi yana da ƙarfi kuma a cikin 1949 yana da shekaru 19, Kendall ya ɗauki darussan tashi a Wagga Wagga kuma nan da nan ya sami lasisinsa.

Bayan wani lokaci a cikin Sojojin Sama na Citizens, nasarar tafiye-tafiye na barnstorming a yammacin Victoria da ke tashi Tiger Moths da kuma zagaye na Australia da ke neman aikin tashi, ya tashi zuwa Ingila a shekarar 1955.

A can ya sami lasisin matukin jirgi na kasuwanci kuma ya fara aiki ga British European Airways yana tashi Herons, DC3s kuma daga baya turboprop Viscounts. Yayinda yake a Ingila ya sadu kuma ya auri Eilish Burke.

Ya koma Ostiraliya da noma a shekara ta 1959 amma kwari na jirgin sama nan da nan ya sake tsayawa kuma a shekara ta 1965 shi da Eilish suka koma Wagga Wagga don zama abokan tarayya a cikin karamin kasuwancin jirgin sama.

Bayan sayen abokan hulɗarsu, sun kafa Premiair Aviation tare da jirgin saman Piper Cherokee guda biyu. An kafa kamfanin ne a shekarar 1967 kuma sunan ya canza zuwa Kendell Airlines a shekarar 1971. 

A cikin kasuwancin da aka sani da babban gazawar, Kamfanin Jirgin Sama na Kendell ya bunƙasa kuma ya girma yayin da wasu kamfanoni da yawa suka zo suka tafi. Halin mutum da mutunci na Kendell ya ba shi girmamawa sosai a duk masana'antar jirgin sama. Ya kasance mai ƙarfi ga yankin Australia kuma ya yi tsayayya da yunkurin motsa babban ofishin kamfanonin jiragen sama daga Wagga Wagga.

Yana da falsafar mai sauƙi: Bayar da amintaccen sabis na yau da kullun a mafi kyawun farashi. Ya yi imanin cewa babu wani wuri don jin dadi a cikin kasuwancin jirgin sama - idan hanyar ba ta biya ba to za ku daina aiki da ita. Yana da wani yardstick da ya tsaya a cikin kyau.

A shekara ta 1992, an sanya Don Kendell memba na Order of Australia (AM) a cikin girmamawar ranar haihuwar Sarauniya saboda ayyukansa ga jirgin sama. A shekara ta 2001, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Doctorate of Business daga Jami'ar Charles Sturt . 

A watan Yunin 1997, ya yi ritaya a matsayin manajan darektan kamfanin jirgin sama na Kendell amma ya kasance a matsayin shugaban da ba shugaban kamfanin jirgin sama ba ciki har da sauran rassa biyu na Ansett, Aeropelican da Skywest Airlines, har zuwa 31 ga Disamba 2000. 

 Mutuwa 
Don Kendell ya mutu daga ciwon daji a ranar 14 ga Oktoba 2001, a Wagga Wagga, yana da shekaru 71. 

Ya bar matarsa, 'ya'ya maza biyu da' ya'ya mata biyu, da jikoki.

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