Abiding Quote by Cecil Beaton

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

— Muriel Spark

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying…

— Daniel Kahneman

The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don't like that, when you book, there are then all of these little…

— Eddie the Eagle

My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and…

— James B. Stewart

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…

— Rod Eddington

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in?…

— Tony Fernandes

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…

— Robert Brooks

“Before the day I didn't fit, this conversation was largely an abstraction for me. My stance was the same as it is now (if…

— Lindy West

I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which…

— Jeff Smisek

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost…

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

— Arnold Kling

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

— Phil Donahue