Airline Quotes

• The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

  Michael O'Leary

  Liars, Airline Business, Three

  "Business Focus: Into the unknown". www.thetimes.co.uk. November 20, 2005.

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• Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

  Collett E. Woolman

  Running, Baby, Fun

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• If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

  Keith Henson

  Aggravation, Flying, Wonder

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• Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

  Ed Acker

  Dope, Airline Business, Aviation

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• Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Company, Happens

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• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Phil Donahue

  Interesting, Favors, Court

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• A lot of airlines have come and gone.

  David Neeleman

  Gone

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational, Business, Hipster

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

  Gerard Arpey

  Travel, Three, Century

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• Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

  Nick Rahall

  Years, Community, Demand

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• The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

  Kelly Preston

  Husband, Giving, Flying

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• In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Jobs, School, Flying

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• I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

  Mickey Gilley

  Tanks, Lots Of Money

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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Fun, Two, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Jobs, Racing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.

  Niki Lauda

  Air, Use, Alliances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

  James Brady

  Beautiful, People, May

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• I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

  Margaret Smith

  Running, Women, Memorable

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• Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

  Lara St. John

  Boards, Violin, Laptops

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• Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

  Fay Wray

  Men, Names, Juan

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Is Space Tourism Finally About To Take Off?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 6, 2014.

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• We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fuel Prices, Numbers, Down And

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• Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Order, Leaving

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