Best Airline Sayings

170 Airline quotes by 105 unique authors

I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny… — Unknown Author
Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope. — Unknown Author
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — Cyrus Rowlett Smith
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 -… — Unknown Author
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… — Warren Buffett
Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver. — Unknown Author
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term… — Gordon Bethune
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… — Warren Buffett
The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one… — Unknown Author
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well.… — Robert Crandall
I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express. — Richard Branson
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… — Richard Branson
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference… — Unknown Author
America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are… — Unknown Author
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs. — Frank Borman
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. — Unknown Author
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault." — Donald J. Carty
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I… — Richard L. Hanna
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune
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… — Richard Branson
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,… — Robert Crandall
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in… — George Will
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. — Richard Branson
Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of… — Richard Branson
Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to… — Jimmy Fallon

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