Airline Quotes - Page 5

• We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

  Don Burr

  Thinking, Make You Think, Important

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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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• The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

  Michael O'Leary

  Taken, Vision, Boards

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• We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Trying, Aviation

  "Ryanair's customer service promise is subject to delays" by Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.

  Rod Eddington

  Land, America, Aviation

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• If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

  James M. Landis

  Moon, Next Day, Boards

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• Pan Am can go to hell.

  Alfred Kahn

  Aviation, Hell, Go To Hell

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• It's a great day for TWA.

  William Compton

  Great Day, Aviation

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• If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.

  Mike Harding

  Fall, Airplane, Eye

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• The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Men, Islands

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Funny, Travel, Humorous

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, Giving, Aviation

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• You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.

  Michael Milken

  Impact, People, Aviation

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• Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

  Don Burr

  Winning, Aviation, Kind

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• If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

  Elton Joe Kendall

  Looks, Logos, Aviation

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