The airline industry has been closely watching…

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

— Roone Arledge

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

— Herb Kelleher

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under…

— Dave Barry

“Creating value is not enough—you also need to capture some of the value you create. This means that even very big businesses can be…

— Peter Thiel

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an…

— Gerard Arpey

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

— C. R. Smith

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have…

— Richard Branson

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

— Michael O'Leary

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…

— Adam Thomson

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

— Maria Cantwell

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

— Herb Kelleher

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Yet just days later Ryanair announced that it had placed one of the biggest-ever orders for Boeing’s 737 series aircraft. The company said it…

— Siobhan Creaton

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb