Airline Quotes - Page 4

• For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Self, Soldier, Defense

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

  Gordon Bethune

  Adages, Pizza

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• We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

  C. R. Smith

  Firsts, Aviation, Dough

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• As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, Giving, Aviation

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• Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hilarious, Oxygen, Cards

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• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, Believe, Pilots

  Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

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• Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Home, People

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Real, Airplane

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

  Dick Cheney

  Cities, Groups, Nuclear

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• . . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.

  Joe Sutter

  Airplane, Jet Engines, Wings

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• An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

  Denis Healey

  People, Aviation, Used

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• For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

  Anthony Weiner

  Sorry, Shadow, Monsters

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• The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Village, Boeing, Aviation

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• We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.

  Willie Walsh

  Order, Aviation, Bigs

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• I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

  Frank Lorenzo

  Aviation, Imagine, Chapters

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• I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

  Robert Crandall

  Important, Doe, Investment

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• Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Offering, Important, Alliances

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• What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

  Richard Branson

  Hurt, Two, Feet

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• I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur.  If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

  Richard Branson

  Airline Business, Entrepreneur, Gone

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• Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

  Peter Thiel

  Google, Three, Three Times

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.21, Crown Business

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• In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

  Richard Branson

  Feelings, Aviation, Kind

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• If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

  John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

  Taken, Glasses, Steel

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• There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.

  Mike Batt

  Differences, Romance, Chocolate

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• I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Long, Care, Aviation

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