Famous Quotes & Sayings

While each region and each airline has its own set of challenges, none are unique and none are insurmountable.

David Neeleman

Without a doubt, it's been the events of September 11th and their aftermath. There's never been a more critical time in the airline business.

We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

Marion Blakey

We encourage the use of child safety seats in airplanes, ... However, if requiring extra airline tickets forces some families to drive, then we're inadvertently putting too many families at risk.

We're also taking over classical functions like booking, loading, planning. It saves the airlines cost. They don't have to open a bond.

We carry out this competitive performance barometer for the airline industry each year,

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.

We have a number of airlines that are at 5-percent load factors. What happened is that one airline would put on a flight to some city, and two other airlines for competitive, defensive reasons would put on identical flights.

Noam Chomsky

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

We are committed to our customers' success. Our airline partners are looking for solutions, and Boeing has the most efficient airplanes and the broadest range of support products and services to help our customers maximize their fleets' operational efficiency.

Returns to airlines are slowly improving but are far from allowing long-term financial sustainability.

No airline in the modern era has resorted to contract rejection to get what they want and we will not willingly work without a contract. If they reject the contract, we'll keep all legal options open.

No airline benefits when you have a hurricane,

On many issues, we have found common ground. But we have a gulf between us on job security, particularly if the airline is sold or merged.

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.

We're losing an airline that brought super low fares to America. Those super low fares put them into bankruptcy, too.

I see it as a lose-lose situation. Integration problems with airline mergers are legendary.

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.

Johnny Isakson

will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.

When it comes to airline bankruptcies, infrequent travelers tend to freak out. They think bankruptcy is liquidation. But that's not the case.

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).

We are hoping it will be the great awakening. This is not just going on with just Delphi, but the airline industry and corporate America. We're hoping this will get the attention of the public and Capitol Hill.

James Young

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.

There is a sense of airline financial relief fatigue among members, who feel that we have already rushed to the well on their behalf with post-Sept. 11 support and it's now up to them.

We decided to take about $1 million out of reserves to redo the roof on the Japan Airlines hangar. That's a big bite, but we're at the point of Band-Aiding it each year, which doesn't make sense after a certain point.

We have said all along that anyone is free to bid. We feel American Airlines has the best bid because it preserves almost all of the jobs, and more importantly, offers a major worldwide network into which we can integrate TWA, which we feel is much better than an offer that would try to operate it as a single small carrier.

We always are in conversations with Southwest Airlines to expand their operations at Sky Harbor. With Southwest having the largest single operation at Sky Harbor, we talk with them constantly.