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If airlines feel like they are not going to be able to be accommodated, then they'll start looking at other airports.

I wouldn't be at all surprised. In the past, these two airlines have talked and they have very little route overlap.

I suspect that at least for a while people will like what United offers, feeling differentiated from the no-frills approach that almost every other airline is taking now. I think the problem is going to be managing it all. And if there are too many brands, it could confuse the customer.

David Neeleman

I think it hurts profitability more than the business because the airlines have tried and tried to pass on higher fares, and it's not going to happen.

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.

I think you will see some matching. But the (major competitor) airlines will dance around to begin with.

LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the country that is controlled by slots so there are only a certain amount of airlines that are allowed to take off and land.

We're pretty positive on the airline industry right now.

With mergers, we may see some difficulties as operations are merged, as employees learn to work together. So, it could still happen, but I think airlines learned a lot last year.

We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero.

We are further extending our ... position ... in the premium segment, while other airlines are withdrawing from (it).

I expect more of the network airlines to do the same. Now that fuel is an issue, and other economics of the airline industry are pretty difficult, a lot of marginal flights are hard to justify. It's a prudent trimming of marginal routes.

Michael Copps

If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.

If the airlines could get away with it, they'd charge us for the air we breathe. The planes would probably have coin-operated toilets.

If the airline has no viable business or cash flow, it can't stay together. That's why they are in this mess.

There aren't many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry.

Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankruptcy and terminating the plans.

Unless we have some unforeseen circumstance -- another terrorist attack, a severe dip in the economy -- I think there is going to be an upswing in the airline business.

We may consider permitting other airlines to hedge in future. The fuel prices are continuously rising

We lost the sales of 150,000 gallons of airline fuel. If we still had an airline I was selling gas to, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

He was prepared to cooperate and provide the relevant telephone numbers and information about supervisors and any individual who American Airlines wanted or the pilot wanted to confirm that he was a Secret Service agent.

I think we have the makings of the airline of the future,

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,

Mike Enzi

Had the airlines not had a crisis, I'm not sure we would have been here today debating pensions,

There is a false perception out there that the airlines are required to compensate passengers when their flights are canceled or delayed, when in fact, they are only required to provide compensation to passengers who were 'bumped' from an overbooked flight.

There is going to be a lot of shuffling as airlines ramp up their schedules.

He wanted to see a Virgin-branded airline fly in the U.S., but he realized the only way to do that was to license the trademark and cede control to U.S. investors.

Having a credit card associated with a frequent-flier program is a real money maker. Typically, airlines charge the credit-card company one or two cents for each mile issued. That can equate to millions of dollars.

Having a budget terminal allows low-cost airlines such as Tiger Airways to offer low, low fares on a sustainable and consistent basis.

Gerard Arpey

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.