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.

The flip-side of that though is if you create value, you create value. And I think we're showing that you can create a lot of value -- much more than I think people thought -- by putting two airlines together.

The flight operations of all domestic airlines have remained normal throughout most the country.

The higher energy costs will put a squeeze on both businesses and households. They're spending so much on energy - the households on gasoline, the airlines on jet fuel, for example - that they'll have to curtail elsewhere.

The Hispanic Chamber was very pleased that United Airlines chose to establish a rapport with us.

The growth in demand for low cost airlines has been unprecedented and is likely to continue unabated, as people continue their search for good value,

Steve Cohen

The industry should take note when nearly half of frequent airline passengers are experiencing problems, compared to only 25 percent among rental car customers and less than 15 percent among hotel guests.

The incumbent airlines undoubtedly will lower many of their fares to the same level Oasis does, and the customers will most likely make the rational choice to fly with the known commodities, with their established safety histories and frequent flier programs.

Jack Evans

The industry has very little pricing power. We know that consumers are very price-sensitive when it comes to airline pricing, and with so many competitors, they gravitate to the lowest fare.

Although airlines have recently passed through a few price increases, they pale in comparison to the magnitude of the sustained rise in jet fuel prices.