Airline Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Travel, Car

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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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• Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Self Motivation, Want

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• In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Years, Choices

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• In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

  Richard Branson

  Perfect, Trying, Aviation

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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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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• When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

  Martin Amis

  Flying, Aviation, Nervous

  "Did I say that? Martin Amis" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Doe, Needs

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• ‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

  Michael O'Leary

  Negative, Publicity, Aviation

  "Ryanair's Michael O'Leary: 'Short of committing murder, bad publicity sells more seats'" by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, www.campaignlive.co.uk. August 01, 2013.

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• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  George Will

  Eye, Airports, Imagination

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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