Airline Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

  Michael O'Leary

  Air, Aviation, Operations

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• The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Sports, Running, Team

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• Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Average, Years

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• I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

  George S. Kaufman

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.

  George Carlin

  Bullshit, Missing, Looks

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

  George H. W. Bush

  Humorous, Air, Missing

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• I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

  Naomi Campbell

  Humorous, Flying, Mind

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• You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

  Inglis M. Uppercu

  Flying, Aviation, Nickels

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• It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

  C. R. Smith

  Airplane, Firsts, Aviation

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Thinking, Smoking

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• Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Different, Schedules

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• The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Party, People, Reason

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• This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Aviation, Industry, Deserve

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• This is a nasty, rotten business.

  Robert Crandall

  Rotten, Nasty, Aviation

  "Column: Boring? Not These Airline Execs" by Rick Seaney, abcnews.go.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

  Robert Crandall

  Christian, Games, Lions

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• I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

  Richard Branson

  Two, People, Trying

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• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

  Burt Rutan

  Running, Space, Luck

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Baby, Legs, Rooms

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• I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

  Herb Kelleher

  Texas, Nuts, People

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• The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, People, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Mergers, Speed

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• Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

  Tony Fernandes

  Lasts

  "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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