Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

People have known about the challenge of the low-cost carrier for at least a decade. The major airlines did not have an answer. Instead they went about raising fares on the routes where the low-cost competition didn't exist. That was a game that would have caught up with them sooner or later, with or without 9/11.

Aaron Brooks

Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Families had to pack up in cars and head westbound and northbound.

That costs the airlines money, so they're very perturbed about it,

Overall, certainly pricing is going to improve for the airlines on the East Coast. We certainly look at it as a revenue positive.

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.

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.

David Shields

The announcement of American Airlines to start Dallas, Fort Worth, is strategically important for Jamaica and is a very important opportunity for our Midwest market, and western U.S., as well as western Canada. Our Japanese market will also benefit significantly because the American Airlines flight will allow for same day one-stop service from Narita Tokyo in Japan to MoBay.

The anger and frustration among all employee groups at Northwest Airlines was evident throughout the voting process. In the end, Northwest management failed to convince a majority of the work force that the proposal was appropriate or that they could be trusted to honor their commitments.

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,

Late at night is usually when airlines load new fares and discount existing ones.

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,

It doesn't have anything to do with in-flight safety, but they may cause delays and disruptions. The FAA may go in and inspect and the airlines might not be able to prove that it's in compliance.

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

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.

Bill Ward

I can't imagine waking up one morning and saying 'I don't work for Northwest Airlines anymore,'

Frontier Airlines is already losing money. JetBlue and AirTran are on the edge, and Southwest, had it not hedged fuel, would be losing money. Anything with a wing has problems with today's fuel prices. But if oil had stayed where it was a year ago, like we thought it would, we'd be talking today about how profitable the airlines are today.

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

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.

Bureaucrats in Brussels have been blathering on about European unity for ages. But low-cost airlines are at the forefront of delivering it.

I hate to say it but some may seek to the blame the airlines and airports.

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.

Historically, airlines have sought to maintain goodwill among their passengers by providing them with some compensation or refund.

History was made tonight as American Airlines gave away more than 20,000 free, round-trip tickets as part of the largest-ever airline ticket giveaway. We believe in rewarding people for their loyalty, and tonight these devoted fans went home with free American Airlines ticket vouchers. Each Mavericks fan here tonight will soon have the opportunity to experience American's extraordinary new service from Love Field, and we look forward to showing them our special brand of appreciation.

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