Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

David Shields

The announcement of American Airlines to start Dallas, Fort Worth, is strategically important for Jamaica and is a very important opportunity for our Midwest market, and western U.S., as well as western Canada. Our Japanese market will also benefit significantly because the American Airlines flight will allow for same day one-stop service from Narita Tokyo in Japan to MoBay.

The anger and frustration among all employee groups at Northwest Airlines was evident throughout the voting process. In the end, Northwest management failed to convince a majority of the work force that the proposal was appropriate or that they could be trusted to honor their commitments.

David Robertson

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

We're really seeing almost a stealth rally today. Some of the most beaten-down groups of the last few days -- like airlines and retailers -- are seeing gains. But it's not just them. Five out of 10 S&P 500 groups are up at least 1 percent.

Most of the airlines will begin with one or two flights a day and grow back to their original pre-hurricane schedule within a month or so.

Most of the airlines we've met with have been extremely receptive to the concept. Our service ultimately shortens their check-in lines and lowers total weight of the plane. From a traveler's standpoint, you can't beat knowing your luggage is in your hotel waiting for you before you've even boarded the plane. It's truly a 'win win' for everybody involved.

Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.

Jeff Green

We have our own terminal and our own gates. Other airlines do not have that kind of flexibility.

You can get a ticket on United and only be able to carry on a very small bag. And then... the following week you'll get on Continental airlines and you can carry on just about anything you want, it fits.

Johnny Isakson

will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.

I think this is a much, much different United Airlines than the one that existed in 2002.

Malaysia Airlines said they couldn't support the race anymore, and it's been a mad scramble over the past few weeks to recover from this blow...we've received no support form the Queensland Government despite many requests for funding.

We have a number of airlines that are at 5-percent load factors. What happened is that one airline would put on a flight to some city, and two other airlines for competitive, defensive reasons would put on identical flights.

Like steel, textiles, airlines and other American industries that have undergone radical restructurings, ... we expect an increasingly volatile and difficult environment for the companies involved and for their shareholders.

I will still bet there's no strike, one or the other. These airlines are too big to allow a strike for any period of time.

I wonder to what extent a 4-cent reduction in fuel is going to help airlines that are going into bankruptcy anyway. Maybe you might as well let the bankruptcy court sort it out,

I think passengers believe they have seen everybody get in and out of bankruptcy protection, like Continental in the early 1990s and TWA before American Airlines bought it,

It doesn't have anything to do with in-flight safety, but they may cause delays and disruptions. The FAA may go in and inspect and the airlines might not be able to prove that it's in compliance.

We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

We're also taking over classical functions like booking, loading, planning. It saves the airlines cost. They don't have to open a bond.

I would be surprised to see any airlines go under before New Year's, but holiday schedule disruptions could be problematic, ... When flights are already fully booked at the holidays, it can be difficult or impossible to accommodate passengers if a flight is canceled. If the airline decides to reduce its frequency of service on the route, a refund is small consolation.

I hate to say it but some may seek to the blame the airlines and airports.

Frontier Airlines is already losing money. JetBlue and AirTran are on the edge, and Southwest, had it not hedged fuel, would be losing money. Anything with a wing has problems with today's fuel prices. But if oil had stayed where it was a year ago, like we thought it would, we'd be talking today about how profitable the airlines are today.

If airlines feel like they are not going to be able to be accommodated, then they'll start looking at other airports.

I expect more of the network airlines to do the same. Now that fuel is an issue, and other economics of the airline industry are pretty difficult, a lot of marginal flights are hard to justify. It's a prudent trimming of marginal routes.

Michael Copps

If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.

Historically, airlines have sought to maintain goodwill among their passengers by providing them with some compensation or refund.

David Neeleman

I think it hurts profitability more than the business because the airlines have tried and tried to pass on higher fares, and it's not going to happen.

There is a false perception out there that the airlines are required to compensate passengers when their flights are canceled or delayed, when in fact, they are only required to provide compensation to passengers who were 'bumped' from an overbooked flight.

There is going to be a lot of shuffling as airlines ramp up their schedules.

With mergers, we may see some difficulties as operations are merged, as employees learn to work together. So, it could still happen, but I think airlines learned a lot last year.

We are further extending our ... position ... in the premium segment, while other airlines are withdrawing from (it).