Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Kirsten Dunst

My mom lived a much different airline experience, ... She was working Lufthansa in first class. So it was about passing out the caviar. Claire in this movie was a little bit more blue collar. But the one thing I did figure out is that Claire imagines her life as being as glamorous as my mom's airline life was many years ago.

Looking at the volatility of airline results, this is pretty much in line.

Looking at the context of infrastructure improvements in the sector, the numbers of people that are flying and the plans of airlines that are operating, we believe we will revise our estimate upwards in the next four, five months.

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.

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.

I thought I'd worked in some challenging industries but I've reassessed that now that I've worked in the airline industry.

I think this is a much, much different United Airlines than the one that existed in 2002.

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.

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.

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.

The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.

With this important decision, US Airways is taking a huge step towards building its position as a leading world airline and to remain globally competitive.

Today, the airline industry is calling on President Bush to make aviation a national priority and to speed up improvements in our aviation infrastructure.

Thousands of jobs have already gone, and we saw the effects of that a couple of summers ago when the airline found itself short of people at Heathrow.

Jim Brown

Trans World Airlines does not tolerate discrimination in any form, including sexual harassment,

We need to stop the airlines from pulling out in December, January and February. We need to look at ways to keep that from happening.

We founded Eos on a simple premise, that an airline could know its customers well enough to become a true specialist, offering a superior travel experience at a competitive price.

Greg Kelly

We have always viewed the White House and the House as going along with some airline relief as part of a whole package. If you try to pull it out and pass it separately, it changes the dynamics of pension reform.

We believe the future of the airline industry is based on alliances.

David Robertson

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.