Famous Quotes & Sayings

Throw in cyclical and season demand, high capital or (aircraft) leasing expenses, and low variable costs with cutthroat competition, and it is no wonder that airlines lose more money than they make.

Jack Nicklaus

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return. ...The terms of this recovery proposal will help protect United Airlines, our members and their families.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return,

We tried to get Fernando a lap of clean air to beat Michael in the pits and it didn't quite work.

We talked about a lot of options ... and the recommended air pressure was the one we came up with to try to get through the evening. Certainly, we talked about a lot of options ? including the possibility of having to shorten the race. But we never got to that extreme.

We just wanted to share information with passengers and other airport workers and get our side of things out there. And everyone has been 100 percent supportive.

Jeremiah Trotter

We just wanted to keep fighting. Thank God I was in the right place at the right time. The ball went so high in the air I was able to get to it.

We just got word that Virgin Airlines (which Branson owns) was awarded a commercial route into Shanghai. So the balloon must be doing some good.

We just got him up on the hill to get his balance right. He didn't air it out at all. He is going to take what his arm allows on given days. Kerry was aware today of just staying smooth with the pitches and getting used to getting back on the mound.

Joan Collins

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

Richard Dean Anderson

There's not a lot of fooling around, but there is a genuine sort of light air about it all. It's a lot of work, so you sort of have to keep.

Reed Hundt

There's no doubt whatsoever the FCC has jurisdiction in this area. We always have the right and responsibility to investigate any use of the public airwaves that has an effect on the public interest, particularly the interest of children.

Reed Hundt

There's no doubt whatsoever the FCC has jurisdiction in this area, ... We always have the right and responsibility to investigate any use of the public airwaves that has an effect on the public interest, particularly the interest of children.

Tom Daschle

There's no doubt that they are struggling. But there is equally no doubt that working together we can survive this and we can put them and all of them associated with air transportation infrastructure in a position of strength,

There's no doubt in my mind that the day that the CEO from Bridgestone/Firestone was put on the air to apologize for this, it would be the very last day that that person would be working there, ... For a Japanese executive to go that far and assume the responsibility really is tantamount to saying, 'I've caused all these problems with my bad management style,' and that's why I think you'll see somebody go into Bridgestone and I'll bet he'll make huge changes.

Jim Murray

There's no arctic air that's been around here for the past month or so. It really allowed us to warm up down around Sioux City.

Bill Nelson

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. Retiring an aircraft carrier more than a decade early isn't in the best interest of the nation at this time.

There's obviously a mathematical probability that there is a male cadet who in fact did assault a female and got commissioned, and if we can find out who that is we'll have to see what our legal basis is to take action, ... We don't want that kind of person in our Air Force. That's why we're doing what we're doing.

Robert Taylor

There's nothing closer to indoor golf than here in November and December because you have that air conditioned air feel with no bugs and no wind. It literally feels like you're playing in a dome. It's that good.

The top two hay bales were on fire, so I'm hitting my air horn and my siren. It's a fluke.

Sergei Ivanov

The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.

The tragic events in the USA will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the demand for air travel in the months ahead, ... We have taken the necessary steps to curtail expenditure and sadly to cut our workforce.

The tire went down, lost air pressure. We talked to Jimmie and he had felt the tire start to go down in Turn 1. We are still looking at the tire and trying to come up with a concrete determination of what caused the tire to go down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear related at this point.

Ari Fleischer

The United States doesn't understand the reasons for an apology, ... Our airplanes were operating in international air space and the United States did nothing wrong.

Mike Harris

The unique thing about here is we have the air guard right next door. Those guys not only do some different things over the golf course, but for someone coming in and seeing that first time, it is a feeling of awe.

I started the race on the tires that I qualified on, everyone else was on stickers. I ran them pretty hard early on and then wanted to cool them down. I think stickers at the start would have been a better call. I got caught in traffic and that put me to second for a few laps before I could get back by. Once I got by and was in clean air and had clear track I could focus on consistent lap times.

I stand by the decision to build the aircraft carriers.

I spent the whole Sunday in the queue for the ticket. I appeal to both countries to relax the visa process. It is a must -- it is more important than opening rail tracks and air and bus links.

I see this as a win-win scenario for the airlines, the airports and the customers. Both Air NZ and Qantas gain more from growing traffic on the Tasman into their domestic networks.

I see the same biases surfacing, But to ignore the airport (as a way to reduce cars) doesn't make sense.

Richard Myers

I've been told by people that have seen it that it does, in fact, show the aircraft being fired upon. But I haven't seen it,

I've been to this complex, I've been to the dome, I've been on the bus to go to the airport, I've been to the airport and to the visiting hotel. Believe me, nobody mistakes me for Tom Cruise.