quotes about Airline
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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 - you're in the airline business.
-- Adam Thomson -
We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.
-- Colleen Barrett -
Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.
-- Ed Acker -
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There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.
-- Frank Borman -
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
-- George S. Kaufman -
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
-- Gordon Bethune -
Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?
-- Jason BiggsSource : "Jason Biggs talks Twitter woes and his ‘Bachelor’ obsession". Interview with Barbara Hoffman, nypost.com. February 22, 2015.
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The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.
-- Joan Juliet BuckSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.
-- John Barrowman -
I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.
-- Mickey Gilley -
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,
-- Robert Crandall -
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Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
-- Tony FernandesSource : "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
-- Vijay Mallya -
Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That's what costs the most for any given flight.
-- Andy WeirSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.
-- Paul SolmanSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.
-- Colleen BarrettSource : Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett, David Russo, David Ross, Richard Templar (2012). “Building Better Business Teams: Proven Strategies that Get the Best from Your People (Collection)”, p.89, FT Press
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The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.
-- Verne Lundquist