Airline Quotes

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

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.

A lot of airlines have come and gone.

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

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

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

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.

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

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.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

Pan Am can go to hell.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets.

United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?

When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

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.

Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.

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