Airline Quotes

If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

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.

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

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.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

It's a great day for TWA.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

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

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

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

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

A lot of airlines have come and gone.