Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Clinton

I just try to do what the mayor asks. I feel confident airline travel is safe and New York is safe.

James May

If the price of oil stays high and our taxes along with it, I expect more jobs lost, more flights cut and more airlines in crisis.

I f the worst-case scenario happens and they start canceling flights, other airlines will protect them.

If you had a ticket in hand, then there's a chance that another airline would honor that ticket. It would certainly be on a space-available basis and they'd probably charge a fee.

If your backup ticket is a full-fare ticket, then it's totally refundable. If it's an advance-purchase ticket, you'll only be able to apply it toward future tickets on that particular airline (if the strike doesn't materialize, or if a walkout quickly ends).

If your backup ticket is a full-fare ticket, then it's totally refundable, ... If it's an advance-purchase ticket, you'll only be able to apply it toward future tickets on that particular airline (if the strike doesn't materialize, or if a walkout quickly ends).

If you're looking to break into the industry, it's one I wouldn't recommend at any level. Overall, this is not going to be a bonanza in hiring in the airline industry.

If you choke an airline enough, you'll kill it. It's dangerous slowing operations when the company's in such a delicate position.

In this volatile airline industry economy, airlines are especially risk-averse.

I don't know if one airline right now feels comfortable with having a contract system. I have predicted in the next year we will see massive changes. The changes were coming, and change is always slow, and now change will come at warp speed.

If oil prices had stayed where they were in 2004 we would be talking about how profitable the airlines are.

I have never seen an airline merger go smoothly.

I'm told that the airplanes now serve more airports around the state and Island Airlines provided more point-to-point connections between our islands than the other airlines in our state.

In era where the consumer is being characterized as not being loyal and always looking for the best deal they can find, airlines have done a great thing with loyalty programs, which gives suppliers an advantage.

I'm hoping that we've had enough conversation with the other airlines that they're going to keep their fares in line or even reduce them.

In some cases, the airlines were buying one of just about everything, because they thought they had an application for everything. It turns out they were wrong.

Being in the middle of the pack isn't particularly exciting in the airline world, because the middle of the pack isn't making money.

Jeff Hawkins

but you can get info like a stock price, an airline schedule or traffic information.

Glenn Tilton

Before today, of the 166 airline bankruptcy filings since 1978, only two passenger carriers have successfully restructured and exited as viable businesses. That will soon change to three.

But what airlines won't tell you is that when you try to redeem your free ticket you're competing with 40 million other frequent fliers for the same ticket. We all want to go to the same place and there aren't enough upgrade seats to go around.

This growth story is attracting a lot of investors and new international airlines are trying to ride the boom in India.

They spent at least 24 hours at Narita. They slept on the floor. The airline gave them pillows and blankets.

They're threatening to bring the airline to a complete halt.

They're very good cost cutters. It's obviously a pretty tough time for airlines given the way fuel prices have gone up, they've done a pretty good job managing it.

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.