Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 are further extending our ... position ... in the premium segment, while other airlines are withdrawing from (it).

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.

We may consider permitting other airlines to hedge in future. The fuel prices are continuously rising

He was prepared to cooperate and provide the relevant telephone numbers and information about supervisors and any individual who American Airlines wanted or the pilot wanted to confirm that he was a Secret Service agent.

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.

There is a false perception out there that the airlines are required to compensate passengers when their flights are canceled or delayed, when in fact, they are only required to provide compensation to passengers who were 'bumped' from an overbooked flight.

There is going to be a lot of shuffling as airlines ramp up their schedules.

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.

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

Mike Enzi

Had the airlines not had a crisis, I'm not sure we would have been here today debating pensions,

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

If the airlines could get away with it, they'd charge us for the air we breathe. The planes would probably have coin-operated toilets.

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

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.

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,

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

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,

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.

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

Jim Carter

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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.