14 Facts About Ed Beauvais

Edward Raymond Beauvais was a business executive known for his contributions to the US airline industry.

Ed Beauvais was born Edward Raymond Ed Beauvais on November 13,1936, in Pueblo, Colorado.

Ed Beauvais's family had French-Canadian heritage and had moved to the Colorado city, where his grandfather and father both had worked at the Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill.

Ed Beauvais went to Saint Joseph's College, Indiana, on a sports scholarship and later moved over to Regis University in Denver.

Ed Beauvais was a talented athlete who started out playing baseball as a left-handed pitcher and a right-handed batter and was even drafted by the Baltimore Orioles as he came out of high school.

Ed Beauvais started his career working in the accounts department at Colorado Fuel and Iron before joining Frontier Airlines working in their finance department.

Ed Beauvais later moved on to Bonanza Air Lines and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1966.

Ed Beauvais later changed careers to become a consultant in 1970, where he served clients including Continental Airlines and the City of Phoenix.

Ed Beauvais was often referred to as the "pearl of deregulation" and "darling of deregulation".

Ed Beauvais brought in the first of the industry's yield management systems that aimed to maximize revenues by creating fare segments.

Ed Beauvais enjoyed healthy relations with its employees and had become the largest carrier in Phoenix, surpassing Southwest Airlines in its very first year.

Ed Beauvais was named Inc magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1989 and was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in 2014.

Ed Beauvais continued to remain connected with athletics coaching his sons' little league teams.

Ed Beauvais died from a heart attack while at home on September 28,2021.