Famous Quotes & Sayings

We assume that discussions may occur among the remaining airlines in every possible combination.

Dan Stevens

We believe he was a passenger on board the United Airlines flight. He stated that the plane was being hijacked.

Trying to put two airlines together from an IT standpoint, there's no way around it--it's ugly, it's expensive, and it takes a long time.

Ian Thomas

This segment, which is focused on the business class and people who don't want to stop three or four times during a flight, promises high margins and is an area airlines want to appeal to.

Extending emissions trading to the aviation sector will limit these emissions and ensure that aviation, like all other sectors, contribute to reducing the harmful greenhouse gases. Through emission trading, airlines will be able to do so at the least possible costs.

Jack Evans

but other than that, the airlines are doing this on a volunteer basis. The crews on board are all volunteers.

Jim Brown

Trans World Airlines does not tolerate discrimination in any form, including sexual harassment,

We need to stop the airlines from pulling out in December, January and February. We need to look at ways to keep that from happening.

Most of the airlines will begin with one or two flights a day and grow back to their original pre-hurricane schedule within a month or so.

Most of the airlines we've met with have been extremely receptive to the concept. Our service ultimately shortens their check-in lines and lowers total weight of the plane. From a traveler's standpoint, you can't beat knowing your luggage is in your hotel waiting for you before you've even boarded the plane. It's truly a 'win win' for everybody involved.

Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.

Jeff Green

We have our own terminal and our own gates. Other airlines do not have that kind of flexibility.

You can get a ticket on United and only be able to carry on a very small bag. And then... the following week you'll get on Continental airlines and you can carry on just about anything you want, it fits.

David Robertson

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

We're really seeing almost a stealth rally today. Some of the most beaten-down groups of the last few days -- like airlines and retailers -- are seeing gains. But it's not just them. Five out of 10 S&P 500 groups are up at least 1 percent.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.

United shutting down doesn't necessarily fix the problem for other airlines, but it helps a lot. It does divert a fair amount of revenue to other airlines -- United carries about 17 percent of the nation's traffic.

Glenn Tilton

United Airlines will continue to provide customers with the same experience and level of service they have come to expect, ... We stand by our commitment to provide customers with convenient schedules, quality onboard services and the most extensive route network in the U.S. and abroad.

Jean Lapierre

We know Canadian airlines fly well on their own, ... But we can help them really soar by raising the ownership limit to 49 percent.