Aviation Quotes - Page 28

• . . . 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, Dough, Impression

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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, Used, Taxpayers

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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, Airline

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

  Willie Walsh

  Order, Bigs, Airline

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• There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

  Frank Borman

  Airline Business, Cost, Certain

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• We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

  Frank Lorenzo

  Crazy, Player, Emotional

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

  Frank Lorenzo

  Imagine, Chapters, Produce

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, Giving, Airline

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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, Treats

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

  Don Burr

  Winning, Kind, Behavior

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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, Look Up

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• The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

  Donald J. Carty

  Years, Lasts, Faults

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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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• It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

  Gordon Bethune

  Opera, Want, Notes

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• Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.

  Edward Kennedy

  Agency, Cost, Gone

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• Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Kind, Airline, Bankruptcy

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• Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

  Michael O'Leary

  Connections, Alliances, Poor

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• We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

  Joe Sutter

  Airplane, Done, Fields

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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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• If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

  Robert Crandall

  Believe, World, Pilots

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• The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

  Herb Kelleher

  Pain, Ass, Amendments

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• It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

  Herb Kelleher

  Steel, Nerves, Airline

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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