Airline Quote by Richard Branson

And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747…

— Richard Branson

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves…

— Richard Branson

In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect…

— Richard Branson

We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers…

— Herb Kelleher

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

“More than a hundred new airlines went into business around this time, although the casualty rate was extremely high: in 1994 alone, fifty-seven new…

— Siobhan Creaton

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

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,

— Robert Crandall

I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“Customer service tends to be bad on budget airlines.”

— Steven Magee

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

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