Airline famous quotes

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.
-- Adam Thomson

#Lost #Belts #Airline

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

#Transportation #Airline

A lot of airlines have come and gone.
-- David Neeleman

#Gone #Airline

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

#Dope #Airline

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

#Cost #Certain #Airline

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
-- George S. Kaufman

#Humorous #Air Travel #Airline

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.
-- Gordon Bethune

#Adages #Airline #Pizza

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?
-- Jason Biggs

#Miles #Airline

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

#Lawyer #Stewards #Airline

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

#Pilots #Airline Pilots #Airline

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

#Airline

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

#People #Minus #Airline

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
-- Tony Fernandes

#Lasts #Airline

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
-- Vijay Mallya

#Serious #Looks #Airline

Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That's what costs the most for any given flight.
-- Andy Weir

#Flight #Taxes #Airline

Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.
-- Paul Solman

#Mean #Discipline #Airline

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

#Transportation #Airline #Service Business

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.
-- Verne Lundquist

#Airline #Stills #Uneasiness