Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Johnson

Southwest Airlines reconsiders its position for the good of the region.

Colleen Barrett

Southwest Airlines recognizes that tourism and convention business has been, and will continue to be, a major stimulus for the New Orleans economy. We hope that other corporations and organizations also will choose New Orleans as a destination for their conventions and conferences.

Southwest Airlines has been serving New Orleans for 27 years. We are part of this community, and we will continue to be a partner in the rebuilding of New Orleans tourism .

Southwest Airlines Customers are traveling at record rates, and they're asking for more flights. We're pumping up our service to get ready for spring and summer travel.

Now it's up to management to make our airline thrive. We've given them the tools ? now they are accountable for our future performance.

Oil prices were already very bad, this new rise is going to make it very rough. The airline industry will see pretty high losses in the third quarter.

This is an economy where airlines are paying record prices for jet fuel, and yet it is very hard to pass through those costs.

This is an awfully difficult subject. The notion of national sovereignty is very strong. To go after civilian airlines with passengers on them, we'll defer on that.

This growth story is attracting a lot of investors and new international airlines are trying to ride the boom in India.

They spent at least 24 hours at Narita. They slept on the floor. The airline gave them pillows and blankets.

They're threatening to bring the airline to a complete halt.

They're very good cost cutters. It's obviously a pretty tough time for airlines given the way fuel prices have gone up, they've done a pretty good job managing it.

Almost every airline flies to Orlando. How many do you see flying into Vail?

Norm Coleman

This is smart reform that will protect and grow jobs, while significantly decreasing the likelihood airlines such as Northwest will have to transfer their pension liability to the PBGC,

Matthew Davis

This is obviously great news for the airline and hotel companies, but travel managers might be less positive, as they are the ones facing potential cost increases next year.

The way we did it was really through trench warfare and really hard work. It wasn't easy, and we had to help convince the airlines that they could make a buck here.

Louise Slaughter

This deal would trigger the airline consolidation we have feared in the wake of a proposed United-US Airways merger. It would be a travesty for the new administration to let this go forward.

This could've sent this airline into complete liquidation.

This evening Northwest Airlines proposed what they term as their last best offer. This offer reflects Northwest Airlines' consistent extreme position and leaves us with little hope of reaching a deal before tomorrow evening's strike deadline.

This airplane, I believe, will be a superb machine for operating with the airlines in terms of its economy, ... To match (the 7E7), the competition is really going to have to stretch out.

American Airlines is benefiting from much improved pricing and load factors, particularly in the U.S. domestic market, which are helping to offset very high fuel prices.

American Airlines has experienced record-setting load factors each month since January of last year. So we're very busy.

American Airlines apologizes if anyone was made to feel uncomfortable by the comments of this pilot.

They have an innovative approach to the airline business - profitability.

You can think of it as a discount, too, in some areas, just as you might see discounts in movie theaters or discounts in airlines or hotels. The same thing with gasoline.

This means a lot to me because we are all in this together. The airline industry is a family and this is my way of giving back to an industry that has been good for me.

There was some very generous pricing done on the 777s. The A340 models that we continue to produce are great airplanes. A lot of airlines love flying it." ()

All airlines have been reexamining their IT strategies and expenditures and strategies. US Airways is certainly going to be watched with great interest.

The mistake everyone makes is that they do not do figure out what benefits they want from airlines first, some are more generous with upgrades than others.

You're starting to see the airlines turn around, they are going to be a good buy again,

You're naming the price you want to pay, and let us find an airline with empty seats where they'll release a seat at that price.

You're guaranteed a seat, if that. Sometimes, airlines overbook. There's no such thing as being entitled to an amount of room.

Sander Levin

You ought to tell the Republicans we're working, ... We understand everybody can't be here, but we're working ... I want to emphasize, we've got to relate that to the airline industry.