Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is hurting companies that are heavy users of energy, such as airlines. The availability and price of fuel will have a big impact on the bottom line of the airline industry.

This is going to be a very big issue because all the airlines increased the price of their cargo business concurrently.

An intelligent airline these days is not going to be in a rush to get out of Chapter 11.

An order from an airline like British Airways would have launched the B717 properly. This could well be the death-knell of the B717.

Every airline performed more poorly in baggage handling. The big question is: why?

ensure the security, the safety and the stability of the airline industry.

Each airline that's involved sets the prices and some of these differences can be huge.

Each airline is making a significant investment. What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Each airline is making a significant investment, ... What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Essentially, Congress directed airlines to pay TSA what they previously spent on screening of passengers and baggage. And those payments were based on a GAO analysis.

European citizens will all be able to consult the blacklist of airlines that do not meet European safety criteria.

Even if an airline announced tomorrow it would take anywhere from 60 to 120 days to get in our market. They have to schedule so far out.

FedEx is a big drag today, Merck is down, steel is down, airlines are down, it's all weighing on the transports,

Every time the trust fund is going down, they say we're going to have to come to the airlines for more revenue. I say you don't have a revenue problem, you have a cost problem.

Except for what might be a small handful of countries, things like air-traffic control, airlines and airports are doing pretty well. I don't think we're going to end up with a long list of countries that are extremely dangerous.

There's only three ways for airlines to improve. Improve load factor, increase yield or reduce costs.

As the airline industry is in the front line of economic indicators, any change will be quickly felt.

Mark Dayton

assure me and the public that Northwest Airlines is meeting all necessary standards of reliability and safety.

Different airlines to a better job than others. They all kind of know their laws, and the problems come in, I think, more with attitude and poor service.

Christopher Williams

Continental Airlines illustrates how IT initiatives are driven by the business need for remote user productivity improvements and IT requirements for simplification and cost reduction. Expand easily overcomes performance hurdles that left unchecked can severely limit the successful implementation of IT initiatives and impact bottom-line results. Our Compass was strategically designed to enable the network and power the end user.

John McCain

Complaints on the part of passengers are at an all time high, and I'm not sure that the trend in American airlines today is healthy for or beneficial to the American passenger.

Customers don't like their cable TV providers, most airlines or the IRS, either.

Martin George

Customers will now be able to easily compare prices for themselves between British Airways and the airlines offering lower standards of service.

We think that the picture is likely to brighten for airline stocks in the upcoming months.

Today's results reflect overwhelming support for our proposed merger with US Airways, which will create a stronger airline that offers improved job stability for our employees, expanded service for our customers and a more long-term, viable investment for our stockholders.

We are still very cautious on leisure and airline stocks. For British Airways the transatlantic route represents about 40 percent of revenue, they still have more room to fall but Lufthansa has made good progress in cutting costs.

We want a red light or a green light from the government ... We shouldn't be relying on private companies and the airlines to authenticate background checks.

We want a red light or a green light from the government, ... We shouldn't be relying on private companies and the airlines to authenticate background checks.

We have devoted the last six months to building and implementing a transformation plan that leverages our strengths and allows us to compete successfully in a changing airline industry,

Boeing is going through a period of record growth in their commercial airline build rates and they have an awful lot on their plate. And so I think it's great that they've finally got around to making these decisions, getting past them and moving on.

We're very high on Akron. The goal of the airline and the goal of the Akron airport are the same -- we want to offer as much service as possible and also make it worth our while by making a profitable return on our investments.

We say we'll never fly that airline again, and the first sale, we're there. We're terrible.

Joe Gill

This oil shock could cause more damage to the industry than 9/11. That was a one-day tragedy that knocked airline demand and oil prices for six months. This oil price move is more sustained, and could trigger a slowing in consumer demand, the nightmare scenario for most airlines.