The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day. — Gordon Bethune
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one. — Niki Lauda
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more. — Niki Lauda
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air. — Herb Kelleher
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers. — Niki Lauda
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines — John Mulaney
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. — Harriet Quimby
In this business, it is about making an impact. — Randy Orton
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly. — Tony Hsieh
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe
My business is the analytical framework. — Todd Gitlin
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
Airline Industry Quotes
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. — Orson Welles
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland. — Michael O'Leary
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
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
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith
Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour." — Dave Barry
Airline Quotes
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. — Mark Russell
Western airlines cannot compete with Chinese because the latter can fly over Russia. Sanctioning large amounts of the world’s total landmass has economic costs. — Philip Pilkington
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young
The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. — Peggy Ryan
We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally. — Wendell Berry
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. — Frank Zappa
Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!" — Henny Youngman
Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965. — Sayings
Airline Food Quotes
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around. — Dave Barry
A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all. — Dave Barry
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with. — Dave Barry
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare. — Dave Barry
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke." — P. J. O'Rourke
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum." — Dave Barry
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. — Dave Barry
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse. — Dave Barry
As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete." — Bob Hope
England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria. — Dave Barry
Airplane Quotes
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. — Niall Horan
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. — Charles Lindbergh
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. — Chuck Yeager
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. — Igor Sikorsky
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. — Chuck Yeager
We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation. — Colleen Barrett
The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are. — Michael O'Leary
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money. — Robert Crandall
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail. — Robert Crandall
Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver. — Collett E. Woolman
I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway. — Robert Crandall
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 retired at twenty-nine, bought a life-time pass on American Airlines and my only goal in life was to party like a mad man and get drunk with as many people as possible. And I was happy right there. But when we started the streaming business, I knew it could be something big. — Mark Cuban
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero. — Warren Buffett
Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope. — Ed Acker
At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. — Gerard Arpey
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. — Richard Branson
We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. — Frank Lorenzo
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 one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see. — Robert Brooks
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 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it. — Richard Branson
We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels. — Richard Branson
Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not. — Mitt Romney
United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit. — Shaun White
I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling. — Hilary Devey
This is a nasty, rotten business. — Robert Crandall
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down. — Warren Buffett
I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business. — Richard Branson
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of airline business quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about airline business to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of airline business quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
