Best Airline Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.”

Trying Long Term Player Crazy Emotional Industry Managers Long Term Aviation Logical Airline

Author:Frank Lorenzo

“I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.”

I Can Imagine Produce Circumstances Aviation Chapters Eastern Airline

Author:Frank Lorenzo

“As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.”

Giving Names Capitalism Aviation Frank Businessman Airline

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.”

People Ifs Knows Feels I Can Company Subjects Treats Impact Sells Discussion Aviation Frank Eastern Airline

Author:Michael Milken

“Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.”

Kind Winning Behavior Capable Aviation Frank Airline

Author:Don Burr

“If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.”

Ifs Looks Labor Relation Look Up Aviation Dictionary Airline Logos

Author:Elton Joe Kendall

“The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."”

Years Lasts Sin Labor Management Faults Aviation Airline

Author:Donald J. Carty

“Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?”

Knows Want I Can Know How Intention Faster Aviation Self Motivation Do You Know Airplane Airline Fixing Power Of Intention

Author:Gordon Bethune

“It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?”

Want Notes Aviation Opera Want U Airline

Author:Gordon Bethune

“Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.”

Gone Industry Cost Behavior Consumers Agency Aviation Regulation Captains Inadequate Airline Captives Administrative High Prices Regulators

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.”

Kind Solutions Aviation Airline Bankruptcy

Author:Thomas W. Horton

“Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"”

Poor Connections Customers Code Aviation More Money Screws Alliances Airline

Author:Michael O'Leary

“We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.”

Done Fields Built Aviation Airplane Jet Airline

Author:Joe Sutter

“This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.”

Important Earth Development Flight Aviation Airline

Author:Juan Trippe

“If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.”

Ifs World Believe Stills Aviation Flats Pilots Airline Assertion Port Columbus World Is Flat

Author:Robert Crandall

“Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.”

Evil Love Is Stronger Aviation Airline Luke Vader

Author:Don Burr

“Those were my children being slaughtered.”

Children My Children Aviation Airline

Author:Don Burr

“Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.”

Ifs Knows Government Lost Team Football Industry Locals Making Money Aviation Consistently Airline Football Team Lost Money

Author:Richard L. Hanna

“It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.”

Industry Size Driven Making Money Aviation Airline Testosterone Airline Business

Author:Gordon Bethune

“There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.”

Values Watches Complexes Expensive Aviation Parallels Predictable Airline

Author:Gordon Bethune

“In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.”

Years Choices Aviation Chocolate Airplane Relevance Airline Vanilla

Author:Gordon Bethune

“In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.”

Ifs Trying Perfect Aviation Virgins Appreciated Airline

Author:Richard Branson

“I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.”

Said Guy Sells Employee Aviation Airline Airline Business

Author:Robert Crandall

“The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.”

“When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.”

Flying Nervous Aviation Airline Passengers Drinkers Valium

Author:Martin Amis

“Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.”

Needs Doe Two Computer Planes Aviation Pilots Bloody Airline

Author:Michael O'Leary

“‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.”

Negative Murder Sells Seats Aviation Publicity Airline

Author:Michael O'Leary

“It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.”

Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

“Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.”

White Food Sweet Meat Brown Aviation Grey Airline

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.”

Known Wonder Modern Transformation Convinced Aviation Airplane Particles Airline

Author:Bob Blumer

“To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.”

Humorous Diets Aviation Airplane Airline Air Travel

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.”

Ifs Giving Made Sex Five Pieces Air Feet Giving Up Mouths Hundred Leaving Made It Planes Pockets Aviation Stomach Airline One Piece Air Travel

Author:Erica Jong

“The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.”

Way Millionaire Airline Billionaire Airline Business

Author:Richard Branson

“I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.”

Trying I Can Hard Green Size Pilots Carbon Airline Footprint Carbon Footprint Airline Pilots

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Might Gone Years Ago Average Customers Planes Virgins Competing Airline

Author:Richard Branson

“Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.”

Involved Drug Ten Yeah Supposed To Be Chicago Arrested Airline Detroit Baggage Delta Smuggling

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.”

Life Years Car Baby Equal Hundred Universal Pilots Mechanic Airline Old Lady Airline Pilots

Author:A.S. King

“If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.”

Ifs Father Given Mom Members Flow Determined Priorities Our Family Spokes Traffic Immune Airline Landing Family Members Hub Scheduling Takeoff

Book:The End of Your Life Book Club

Source: The End of Your Life Book Club

“Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.”

Earth Funny Form Food Humorous Flight Boat Sailing Airline Transportation Hares Air Travel Sailboat

Author:Dave Barry

“The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.”

Three Industry Aviation Liars Ireland Airline Airline Business Airline Industry

Author:Michael O'Leary

“The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.”

Want Running Lying Bunch Airline Environmentalist Spineless Airline Business

Author:Michael O'Leary

“Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.”

Years Lasts Community Greater Demand Six Program Pressure Financial Fierce Severe Airline Financial Pressure

Author:Nick Rahall

“If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Made Wonder Flying Airline Aggravation Degrading

Author:Keith Henson

“They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.”

Today Lasts Brother Average Flying Planes Seats Pounds Last Time Airline Passengers Wright Brothers

Author:Jay Leno

“We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.”

Needs May Running Process Issues Car Raises Honestly Scales Locals Corporations Chickens Airline Hog Timber Local Food

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Firsts Humor Would Be Funny Pieces Food Humorous Traveler Airports Airline Suitcases Luggage Dummy Air Travel

Author:Erma Bombeck

“[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.”

Believe Kind Sides Fronts Travel Mark Planes Flames Meat Chickens Funny Travel Airline Steak Funny Journey Airline Food

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges”

Decision Higher Structure Expenses Ownership Airports Airline

Author:Giovanni Bisignani

“When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.”

Wanted Seconds Pilots Airline Airline Pilots

Author:John Barrowman

“Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.”

Use Shows Funny Cases Car Havens Travel Insightful Airline Hostesses

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

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