Able Quote by James May

A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

— Ray LaHood

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

— Kurt Fuller

The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have…

— Louis R. Chenevert

Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private…

— Holman W. Jenkins, Jr

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

— Billy Mitchell

One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an abundance of…

— David Neeleman

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of…

— Gerard Arpey

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

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the…

— Bill Nelson

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

— Charles C. Mann