Airline Quotes - Page 6

• Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.

  Garrison Keillor

  America, Problem, Ends

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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• We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

  Richard Branson

  Airline Business, People, Trying

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

  Richard Branson

  Dirty, Past, Thinking

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Frustration, Hands

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London where English wasn't necessarily the first language - maybe because of that, I love to travel. Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. I think that's partly from growing up in London. I've taken that bit with me - this ability to fit in with any culture and be fascinated and respectful with any culture all started from growing up in London.

  JJ Feild

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Competing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers are at the mercy of the major airlines: flights jam-packed, routes slashed, service to smaller airports dumped.

  Paul Solman

  Today, Flight, Wonder

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.

  Niki Lauda

  Motivation, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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• You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go up and talk about how Christopher Walken wanted to know where my dog's tail went. That really happened to me.

  Jay Mohr

  Dog, Crazy, Car

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• There are lots of problems in Transnet, which we are trying to sort out, but we are quite confident we will. We can't avoid the increase in the capacity of Spoornet. So, whatever problems there are in Spoornet, they must be solved. The same goes for the harbours. And the same goes for the airlines.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Trying, Problem, Harbour

  Source: www.gov.za

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

  Chris Hadfield

  World, Budgets, Dissatisfied

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

  Frank Zappa

  Dirty, Opposites, Sky

  Source: afka.net

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• 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.

  James Young

  Tsa, Deregulation, Planes

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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

  David Neeleman

  Flying, Helping, Torture

  Source: skift.com

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

  David Koechner

  Want, Tickets, My Family

  Interview with Brandon Wetherbee, brightestyoungthings.com. September 22, 2016.

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• The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Airplane, Quality, Rooms

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

  Cathy Freeman

  Nike, Australia, Publicity

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

  David Letterman

  Worst Enemy, United, Passengers

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• Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

  Alfred Kahn

  Mean, Imperfection, Competition

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• You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

  David Frost

  New York, Two, London

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• I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

  Alfred Kahn

  Wings, Cost, Aviation

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• People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.

  Alfred Kahn

  Baby, People, Deregulation

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• I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

  Hilary Devey

  Class, Noses, Adequate

  "Hilary Devey: Interview with the new Dragon". Interview with Kate Bassett, realbusiness.co.uk. July 28, 2011.

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• We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?

  David Cross

  Funny, Giving Up, Reading

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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