Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Kenneth Fisher

I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks.

Thanks to that liberalization, 13 new airlines entered the Moroccan market, but that liberalization was carried out within the limits of bilateral cooperation with European states and has showed its limits.

Sometimes investors look at things like higher oil prices and just sell off the airline stocks, ... But if you look at fundamentals of their business, the load factors are still, by historical standards, very high. As long as the economy continues to grow, those load factors should stay high and their pricing power seems to be pretty good here. So Delta's a company that has struggled over the last couple of years with their strategy, but they have new management and we think the outlook is pretty bright.

E. B. White

It would be much better if the airlines did not own this.

It would be wonderful if the TSA wanted to use their dogs with their handlers on our system, but unfortunately that is not an option. You don't see the operational people from airlines handling explosive sniffing dogs. TSA handles it for them.

It would be entirely unfair to the other airlines in the European Union to continue in this fashion because they are respecting the rules,

Michael Harrington

It was all a bit strange as no other airline seemed to have suffered from lightning strikes and later we were told there had been a technical fault.

These days, you don't expect to have fun flying; you just don't want to be hurt. Southwest Airlines does have a policy of not abusing the flying public, and we do appreciate that.

The sector has been pretty terrible up to this point, even without the industry shutdown. So what has happened now is like piling on to an industry that was already down. Barring sharp gains in the overall market, and if the markets goes down, then the airlines may well be down more than the overall market on a percentage basis.

The stock has pretty much been flat for the last couple of years, ... but the hurt is relative because a lot of airline stocks have gone down the drain.

The story continues to be that our airline service is outstanding.

Bankruptcy is allowing airlines to emerge with a clean slate, but it's bad news for workers. Pensions will be affected, and it will mean lower wages and probably fewer jobs.

A year from now, I think all airlines will have these. I think hotels and resorts will offer these all over the world because it costs very little for them to post these on the Internet.

This was the first time someone has 'reverse-engineered' the process to find out what it takes to get on an airline without identification.

James Hall

This was a very serious incident. Both this airline and this airport should know better than to tamper with evidence of a federal investigation of this incident,

This voluntary inspection should alleviate public concerns following the Alaska Airlines accident.

The worry with this is that 50 percent of its revenue is coming from Airbus - and the commercial airline business has never made a lot of money for anyone.

They are almost like the airline of the 1950s and 1960s that viewed flying as an experience, not an endurance test.

They actually give away more upgrades than almost all other airlines combined.

These airlines are investing in the future and will have a definite edge on their competitors when it comes to bringing this technology to the market,

James Woods

The same time we were talking with Eric we were having airline tickets printed to go see Dave in Jacksonville.

I've never seen that level of retro pay. The whole notion of retro pay is a relatively new issue for the airline industry.

Jerry Kramer

Twenty-five years ago I was traveling from Chicago to New York on a United Airlines flight. Went to the bathroom, washed my hands, soapy water, the ring slipped off, put it on the sink .

What took the airlines so long to file?

We've received the information from Southwest Airlines and will provide it to the senator as part of his efforts to hear from all sides on this important issue.

We've raised millions of dollars for this worthy cause over the past 21 years through Celebrity Ski. All of us at American Airlines are dedicated to supporting our communities, and that commitment from our employees and partners shows in long-running efforts like this one.

What are the practical benefits of getting dinged by six different airlines on your computer at the same time?

Christopher Bond

What American Airlines proposes to do for TWA, for the 20,000 employees worldwide, is to buy the assets and keep it operating.

We specifically flew a plane down for that purpose. We've been told that a couple of other airlines are doing it too.

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.

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,