Airline Quotes

• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Dollars, Want

  "Lost and Found: Richard Branson’s Virginity" by Carrie M. King, www.blinkist.com. October 27, 2017.

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• A lot of airlines have come and gone.

  David Neeleman

  Gone

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

  Collett E. Woolman

  Running, Baby, Fun

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Growth

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Herb Kelleher

  Airline Business, Green, Way

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Company, Happens

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• To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Humorous, Airplane, Air Travel

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• This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

  Joe Biden

  Impact, Environmental, Gasoline

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• 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.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mean, Reality, Airline Business

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  Carla Bley

  America, Car, Exotic

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ron Reagan

  Airplane, Airline Business, Flying

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• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  C. R. Smith

  Government, People, Mail

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• If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

  Keith Henson

  Aggravation, Flying, Wonder

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Phil Donahue

  Interesting, Favors, Court

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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

  Michael O'Leary

  Liars, Airline Business, Three

  "Business Focus: Into the unknown". www.thetimes.co.uk. November 20, 2005.

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• 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.

  Robert Crandall

  Airline Business, Guy, Aviation

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• You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Agency, Phones

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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

  Ed Acker

  Dope, Airline Business, Aviation

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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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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Zero, Airline Business

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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Fun, Two, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

  Kelly Preston

  Husband, Giving, Flying

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