Aviation Quotes - Page 27

• Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

  Richard Branson

  Loyal Customers, Employee, Airline

  4 Copy quote

• Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

  Robert L. Priddy

  Want, Rich, Airline

  4 Copy quote

• This is a nasty, rotten business.

  Robert Crandall

  Rotten, Nasty, Airline

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

  Robert Brooks

  Dog, Crazy, Airline Business

  5 Copy quote

• It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

  Christian Blanc

  Fighting, Air, Groups

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Crandall

  Christian, Games, Lions

  8 Copy quote

• The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

  Robert Crandall

  Thinking, Airline Business, Risk

  10 Copy quote

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

  Don Burr

  Thinking, Make You Think, Important

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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, Kind, Spending Time

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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, Treats

  10 Copy quote

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

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Long, Care, Airline

  34 Copy quote

• Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

  Michael O'Leary

  Air, Operations, Bus

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Trying, Should

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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  George H. W. Bush

  Humorous, Air, Missing

  12 Copy quote

• 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, Profit

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Pan Am can go to hell.

  Alfred Kahn

  Hell, Airline, Go To Hell

  4 Copy quote

• It's a great day for TWA.

  William Compton

  Great Day, Airline

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Naomi Campbell

  Humorous, Flying, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

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

  C. R. Smith

  Airplane, Firsts, Making Money

  6 Copy quote