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“I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.”

Ifs Wanted Term My Own Saws Distance Magazines Suits Ads Businessman Corpses Airline Distance Myself Pasties

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.”

Enough America Bits Enjoy Car Taste Airline Exotic Airline Food

Author:Carla Bley

“One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.”

People May Littles Beautiful Clear Paid Impression Tickets Prudence Airline Beautiful People Airline Ticket

Author:James Brady

“Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high volume of calls" Well, you could put it that way - "Due to a high volume of calls". Or you could say, "Due to an insufficient number of employees..."”

World Way Wells Said America Hours Lines Numbers Modern Couple Customers Dues Yesterday Employee Volume Modern World Airline Insufficient

Author:Jay Nordlinger

“Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.”

World Bigs America Company Modern Like You Hotel Modern World Microsoft Airline Big Companies

Book:The Complete Notes

Source: The Complete Notes

“First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.”

World Firsts Done Together Next Nations Grows Doors Europe Neighbor Flight Aviation Globes Linked Airline Railway Next Door Neighbors

Book:The aeroplane

Source: The aeroplane

“A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.”

Capable Aviation Vehicle Airline Aircraft

Author:William Bushnell Stout

“I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.”

Knows World Believe Heart Stills Two I Believe Sky Industry My Heart Decades Tiny Planes Engaged Awe Aviation Leap Soar Thrilling Airline

Author:William A. Patterson

“Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.”

Aviation Airline Dope Hooked Airline Business

Author:Ed Acker

“These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.”

Hell Economics Making Money These Days Aviation Sheer Airline Airline Business Airline Industry

Author:C. R. Smith

“A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.”

Lost Aviation Belts Airline Recessions Trousers Airline Business Airline Industry

Author:Adam Thomson

“You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.”

Flying Aviation Airline Nickels

Author:Inglis M. Uppercu

“The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.”

Industry Deserve Aviation Airline

Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.”

Running Fun Hell Baby Aviation Airline Having A Baby Airline Business

Author:Collett E. Woolman

“People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.”

People World Aviation Airline Sucker

Author:David Neeleman

“Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.”

Believe Wells Long Shows Happens Term Successful Records Happened Stranger Long Term Aviation Odds Airline Long Term Success

Author:Gordon Bethune

“As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.”

Made Country Facts Company Dawn Aviation Zero Airline Airline Business

Author:Warren Buffett

“I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.”

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Author:Gordon Bethune

“Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.”

Want United Rich Aviation Airline Get Rich Delta

Author:Robert L. Priddy

“This is a nasty, rotten business.”

Aviation Nasty Rotten Airline

Author:Robert Crandall

“The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.”

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Author:Robert Brooks

“It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.”

Facts Fighting Groups Air Obvious France Aviation Airline

Author:Christian Blanc

“The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'”

Christian Games Aviation Lions Closest Airline

Author:Robert Crandall

“The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.”

Thinking Wells Risk Very Good Details Communicate Aviation Airline Fast Paced Premium High Risk Airline Business

Author:Robert Crandall

“We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.”

Thinking Important Seats Aviation Airline Make You Think

Author:Don Burr

“I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.”

People Trying Two Rooms Decided Aviation Airline Two Days

Author:Richard Branson

“In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.”

Kind Feelings Spending Planes Hated Guts Aviation Crap Airline Spending Time Gut Feelings

Author:Richard Branson

“If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .”

Ifs Taken Glasses Suits Aviation Pairs Worn Steel Beard Airline

Author:John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

“There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.”

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Author:Mike Batt

“I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.”

Long Care Don't Care I Don't Care Seats Aviation Airline

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.”

Air Operations Aviation Bus Airline Transport

Author:Michael O'Leary

“The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.”

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Author:Michael O'Leary

“We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.”

People Should Trying Aviation Airline

Author:Michael O'Leary

“The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.”

Force Loses Air Missing Humorous Aviation Airline Air Force Luggage Air Travel Airline Industry Air Force One

Author:George H. W. Bush

“America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.”

Stills America Land Profit Aviation Fund Protected Airline Land Of The Free

Author:Rod Eddington

“If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.”

Ifs Next Asks Moon Boards Aviation Next Day Airline

Author:James M. Landis

“Pan Am can go to hell.”

Hell Aviation Airline Go To Hell

Author:Alfred Kahn

“It's a great day for TWA.”

Aviation Airline Great Day

Author:William Compton

“If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.”

Ifs Trying Eye Fall Mountain Aviation Airplane Captains Airline Cabins Nudge Looming Nudge Nudge

Author:Mike Harding

“I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.”

Mind Humorous Flying Planes Aviation Airline Air Travel

Author:Naomi Campbell

“The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.”

People Men World Mean Littles Air Position Depends Importance Claims Rate British Scales Islands Enterprise Aviation Airline Aeroplanes Second Rate

Author:H. G. Wells

“It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.”

Firsts Making Money Aviation Airplane Airline Passengers

Author:C. R. Smith

“. . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.”

Enough Levels Air Special Design Comfort Wings Aviation Engines Capability Airplane Efficiency Jet Airline Transportation Jet Engines

Author:Joe Sutter

“We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.”

Firsts Impression Extras Aviation Airline Dough

Author:C. R. Smith

“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”

People Used Accounts Aviation Wealthy Expenses Taxpayers Airline Aircraft

Author:Denis Healey

“For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.”

Shadow Sorry Monsters Aviation Airline Noisy

Author:Anthony Weiner

“We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.”

Bigs Order Havens Aviation Airline Aircraft

Author:Willie Walsh

“There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.”

Certain Cost Aviation Eastern Airline Romanticism Airline Business

Author:Frank Borman

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