Airline Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Anything that is white is sweet.
  Anything that is brown is meat.
  Anything that is grey, don't eat.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sweet, Food, White

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• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  Bob Blumer

  Airplane, Aviation, Transformation

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• Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Giving Up, Air

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• The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

  Richard Branson

  Airline Business, Way, Millionaire

  "What Richard Branson Told Me About Goal-Getting (And Creating a Life You Adore)" by Robin Sharma, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Chicago, Baggage

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• I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal.
  Except that it's not.

  A.S. King

  Life, Baby, Years

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

  Michael O'Leary

  Running, Lying, Airline Business

  "Michael O’Leary: a gift for controversy and an eye on the bottom line" by Rob Davies, www.execreview.com. September 24, 2017.

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• They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

  Jay Leno

  Brother, Average, Flying

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• We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Issues, Car

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humorous

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• [Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Travel, Believe, Flames

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• Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Airports, Decision, Ownership

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• When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

  John Barrowman

  Pilots, Wanted, Seconds

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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 knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Travel, Prayer

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• Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Media, Priorities

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.14, Crown Archetype

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