Airline Quotes

• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Dollars, Want

  "Lost and Found: Richard Branson’s Virginity" by Carrie M. King, www.blinkist.com. October 27, 2017.

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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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• 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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• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Growth

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• 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 the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

  Herb Kelleher

  Airline Business, Green, Way

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• This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

  Gerard Arpey

  Grateful, Loss, Support

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Long, Process

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com.

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Looks, Damage

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• I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

  Willard Scott

  Pilots, Auditions, Disaster

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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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• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

  Phil Collins

  Travel, Journey, Goes On

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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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• 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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• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  C. R. Smith

  Government, People, Mail

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• This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

  Joe Biden

  Impact, Environmental, Gasoline

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• As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Zero, Airline Business

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• The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

  Donald J. Carty

  Years, Lasts, Faults

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

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational, Business, Hipster

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• If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

  Herb Kelleher

  Brother, Humorous, Fire

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