Airline Quote by C. R. Smith Download Open image “It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.” — C. R. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Airline Airplane Aviation Firsts Making money Money Passengers
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money, — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Bumping airplane passengers off flights for silly reasons is how some airlines boost their profits!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
“It only took one flight with a budget airline to discover how horrible their airline was!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though. — Mickey Gilley Copy Share Image
We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being… — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another? — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we… — George Will Copy Share Image
Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
