Airline Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

  C. R. Smith

  Airline Business, Aviation, Making Money

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• A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

  Adam Thomson

  Airline Business, Aviation, Lost

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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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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• Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational, Business, Hipster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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