Famous Quotes & Sayings

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

Jim Carter

Our New England customers deserve nothing less than the very best. These improvements will make flying in and out of Boston on American Airlines and American Eagle even more convenient and enjoyable for both the business and leisure traveler, while delivering on our overall goal of improving our customers' travel experience.

People need to understand that we take these threats very seriously, and that we will prosecute anyone who threatens an airline even, as here, when the threat turns out to be a hoax, ... Not funny, don't do it.

People have known about the challenge of the low-cost carrier for at least a decade. The major airlines did not have an answer. Instead they went about raising fares on the routes where the low-cost competition didn't exist. That was a game that would have caught up with them sooner or later, with or without 9/11.

Aaron Brooks

Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Families had to pack up in cars and head westbound and northbound.

Al Gore

Some of our recommendations will impose costs on the airline industry,

Some of our maintenance employees saw another airline throwing away a scaffolding. Our guys took it out of the trash and turned it into a picnic table and a few benches for their hangar.

Some of those pilots were very high-time pilots, with the best airline transport rating, which is the highest license a pilot can have, ... Some of them were only transport pilots with many thousands of hours of flying time that could not manage to fly this airplane.

That costs the airlines money, so they're very perturbed about it,

Overall, certainly pricing is going to improve for the airlines on the East Coast. We certainly look at it as a revenue positive.

Rising fuel prices are having a tremendous impact on the airline industry. American told us all the airlines are in the same boat right now, they are losing lots of money. So they are interested in new opportunities and want to keep talking.

Malaysia Airlines said they couldn't support the race anymore, and it's been a mad scramble over the past few weeks to recover from this blow...we've received no support form the Queensland Government despite many requests for funding.

It is an economic analysis, but the problem is that there's also an ego factor at many airlines. That's when a CEO says something like we need to have a presence in the Denver-to-London market even if it loses money because everyone else has it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that. It's one of the biggest mistakes an airline can make.

Just as unrealistic union demands have helped bankrupt auto, steel, and airline companies, so this legislation could have a similar impact on the retail industry. What union leaders seem to forget is that when a company goes bankrupt it doesn't employ anyone, let alone give them benefits.

Last summer as you recall the planes were bulging at the seams full of passengers, so there's a lot of equipment on those routes now that the airlines are trying to keep full this winter.

David Shields

The announcement of American Airlines to start Dallas, Fort Worth, is strategically important for Jamaica and is a very important opportunity for our Midwest market, and western U.S., as well as western Canada. Our Japanese market will also benefit significantly because the American Airlines flight will allow for same day one-stop service from Narita Tokyo in Japan to MoBay.

The anger and frustration among all employee groups at Northwest Airlines was evident throughout the voting process. In the end, Northwest management failed to convince a majority of the work force that the proposal was appropriate or that they could be trusted to honor their commitments.

That we have secured such an impressive slate of equity investors and partner support in a period of such industry uncertainty is a strong indication of the prospects and enthusiasm for this transaction, ... We believe that the airline created from the merger of US Airways and America West will bring more choices for customers, as we expand the low-fare pricing structure of America West to dozens of new cities, while also offering passenger-service amenities, such as an attractive frequent flyer program, assigned seating and a First Class cabin.

That's the line-in-the-sand issue for Delta pilots. If they force something through like that, the airline could just disintegrate.

I think it's unfair to characterize what the airlines have done as no progress. That's clearly not what we found,

I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money, it goes far beyond compensating the airlines for those three days that government edict was in effect and the question I have is clearly we are compensating them for far more,

Late at night is usually when airlines load new fares and discount existing ones.

I welcome the idea of an airline giving serious attention to the nutritional specifications of these snacks.

I was wrong, ... I wrote them off. But this is why they are the most determined group of survivors I have ever seen. -- This airline deserves to succeed because they fought back.

Like steel, textiles, airlines and other American industries that have undergone radical restructurings, ... we expect an increasingly volatile and difficult environment for the companies involved and for their shareholders.

I will still bet there's no strike, one or the other. These airlines are too big to allow a strike for any period of time.

I wonder to what extent a 4-cent reduction in fuel is going to help airlines that are going into bankruptcy anyway. Maybe you might as well let the bankruptcy court sort it out,

I think passengers believe they have seen everybody get in and out of bankruptcy protection, like Continental in the early 1990s and TWA before American Airlines bought it,

Richard Branson

I think Chris is an astute businessman, but he is not used to running airlines. Virgin Blue needs people with airline experience.

It doesn't have anything to do with in-flight safety, but they may cause delays and disruptions. The FAA may go in and inspect and the airlines might not be able to prove that it's in compliance.

Tony Fernandes

I think high oil prices will sort out the efficient and non-efficient players in the airline industry,

I suppose retailers could use the airline model and try to pass along costs to consumers. The difference here is that people have plenty of other places to go shopping where they can save money.

I think management has it in its head that it can run the airline themselves.