Airline Industry Quotes:

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

topic: Lost, Belts, Airline, Airline Industry, Trousers

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

- Herb Kelleher

topic: Brother, Fire, Live For Today, Air Travel, Wright Brothers

These days no one can make money on the ***** airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

- C. R. Smith

topic: Making Money, Hell, Economics, Airline Industry, Airline Business

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

- Michael O'Leary

topic: Liars, Airline Business, Three, Airline Industry

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Next, Crash, Save A Life, Airline Industry, Plane Crashes

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Funny, Travel, Humorous, Diarrhea, Air Travel

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Air, Missing, Force, Air Travel, Air Force One

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

- Orson Welles

topic: Travel, Two, Boredom, Pilots And Flying, Flight Attendant

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

- Richard Branson

topic: Hurt, Two, Feet, Crashing Down, Airline Industry

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

- Dave Barry

topic: Funny, Humorous, Food, Announcements, Airline Industry

And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.

- Richard Branson

source: "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

topic: Mean, Fuel, World, Airline Industry

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

- Dave Barry

source: "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

topic: Funny, School, Mean, Yellowstone, Snuff